Lost heart, numbered hairs, inner blood

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Origen went on: Bones the inner man has, all of them. The inner man has a heart: Hear me, you who have lost the heart. Those people had this heart of the body; for that heart is not lost. But when someone neglects the cultivation of the intelligent condition, and from much idleness puts away the thinking faculty, he has lost the heart, and it is said to such a one: Hear me, you who have lost the heart.

And the hairs of your head are all numbered. What hairs? For which reason they were Nazirites spiritually. Since you have all these things of the perceptible body in the case of the inner man, no longer hesitate also about the blood, that with the same name as the perceptible blood, as with the other members of the body, there is blood according to the inner man.

That blood of a sinful soul is poured out. For the blood of your souls shall be required. He did not say 'your blood,' but the blood of your souls. And The blood from the hand of the watchman I will require. What blood does God require from the hand of the watchman, if not that which is poured out of the sinner? So the heart of the fool is lost, and it is said, Hear me, you who have lost the heart, as the blood is poured out and the vital power of the soul (Isaiah 46:12) (Matthew 10:30) (Genesis 9:5) (Ezekiel 33:6) (Numbers 6:5).

Greek

πάντα ἔχει ὁ ἔσω ἄνθρωπος. Ἔχει καρδίαν ὁ ἔσω ἄνθρωπος· «Ἀκούσατέ μου οἱ ἀπολωλεκότες τὴν καρδίαν.». Ἐκεῖνοι καρδίαν εἶχον ταύτην τὴν τοῦ σώματος· οὐ γὰρ ἀπόλλυται ἐκείνη ἡ καρδία. Ὅταν δέ τις ἀμελήσῃ τῆς γεωργίας τῆς ἕξεως νοητικῆς, καὶ ἀπὸ πολλῆς ἀργίας ἀποθῆται τὸ διανοητικόν, ἀπολώλεκεν τὴν καρδίαν, καὶ λέγεται πρὸς τὸν τοιοῦτον. «Ἀκούσατέ μου οἱ ἀπολωλεκότες τὴν καρδίαν.». «Ὑμῶν δὲ καὶ αἱ τρίχες τῆς κεφαλῆς πᾶσαι ἠριθμημέναι εἰσίν.». Ποῖαι τρίχες; ∆ι' ὃ ἦσαν πνευματικῶς ναζιραῖοι.

Ἐπεὶ ἔχεις ταῦτα πάντα τοῦ αἰσθητοῦ σώματος περὶ τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον, μηκέτι δίσταζε καὶ περὶ τοῦ αἵματος ὅτι ὁμωνύμως τῷ αἰσθητῷ αἵματι, ὡς καὶ τὰ ἄλλα μέλη τοῦ σώματος, ἐστὶν κατὰ τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον. Ἐκεῖνο τὸ αἷμα ψυχῆς ἁμαρτωλοῦ ἐκχεῖται· καὶ γὰρ «Τὸ αἷμα τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν ἐκζητηθήσεται». Οὐκ εἶπεν Τὸ αἷμα ὑμῶν, ἀλλὰ «Τὸ αἷμα τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν». Καὶ «Τὸ αἷμα ἐκ χειρὸς τοῦ σκοποῦ ἐκζητήσω».

Ποῖον αἷμα ἐκζητεῖ ὁ Θεὸς «ἐκ χειρὸς τοῦ σκοποῦ» ἢ ἐκεῖνο τὸ ἐκχεόμενον τοῦ ἁμαρτωλοῦ; Οὕτως ἀπόλλυται καρδία τοῦ ἄφρονος, καὶ λέγεται «Ἀκούσατέ μου οἱ ἀπολωλεκότες τὴν καρδίαν», ὡς ἐκχεῖται τὸ αἷμα

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Bishops examine Heraclides on the Father, the Son, and the soul. Gaps in the Greek are marked, not filled.

English follows the Greek of the Toura dialogue in the Scherer tradition, from Documenta Catholica Omnia. Gaps in the papyrus are marked, not filled. Sources Chrétiennes 67 was not used as copy-text.

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