Fragments on Lamentations · §99

Rich more pitiable; empty study; diaspora exits

For the poor who are mistreated are not so pitiable. And Paul also laments these, saying “of whom is the adoption and the glory.” For now meditating empty things they do not delight in Moses and the prophets—“delight in the Lord.” For there is no one baking the nourishing word for them, nor do they share in the fatted calf though themselves having sacrificed. And he calls exits the dispersions, or also the turnings-aside of the legal writings.

Greek

Klagel. Jerem. 4, 5. Οὐ γὰρ τοσοῦτον ἐλεεινὸν οἱ πένητες οἱ κακούμενοι. τούτους δὲ θρηνεῖ καὶ Παῦλος, «ὡν ἡ υἱοθεσία« λέγων «καὶ ἡ δόξα. κενα γὰρ νῦν μελετῶντες οὐκ ἐντρυφῶσι Μωδρῖ τε καὶ τοῖς προφήταις, τὸ «κατατρύφησον τῷ κυρίῳ. ούδεὶς γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὁ πέττων τὸν τρόφιμον λόγον, οὐδὲ τοῦ σιτευτοῦ μεταλαμβάνουσι μόσχου καίπερ αὐτοὶ τεθυκότες. διεξόδους δὲ καλεῖ τὰς διασπορὰς ἢ καὶ τὰς τῶν νομικῶν γραμμάτων παρατροπάς.

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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations. Original English Translation from the Greek (Klostermann).

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