Judas’s little fox — love of money
Judas had a little fox in love of money; the Lord entrusted him with the money-bags that greed might be healed, but free will did not use the remedies. So an evil thought, once grown, tends toward the deed of sin.
Latin
Iudas vulpem pusillam habuit in amore pecuniae; Dominus loculos commisit ut cupiditas sanaretur, sed libertas arbitrii medelis non usus est. Sic cogitatio mala adulta ad peccati effectum tendit.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber IV (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber IV. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber IV §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber IV §§1–20)
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