Through Christ the whole land was made desolate
Who is the one saying, 'Through me the whole land was made desolate with desolation' (Matthew 23:32)? Christ says these things. Before his sojourn many sins had indeed come to the people, but not of such a kind that they should be abandoned altogether and handed over to a long captivity. But when they filled up 'the measure of their fathers' (Jeremiah 4:27 or Jer 5:3 (contextual match to desolation)) and added to killing the prophets and pursuing the righteous the killing of 'the Christ of God,' then what was spoken came to be: 'Your house is left to you.' And because of him they have suffered these things, and 'with desolation the whole land was made desolate.' (Matthew 23:38)
Greek
Τίς ἔστιν ὁ λέγων· «δι᾿ ἐμὲ ἠφανίσθη ἀφανισμῷ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ«; ὁ Χριστὸς ταῦτά φησιν, οὑ πρὸ τῆς ἀπιδημίας πολλὰ μὲν γεγένηται ἁμαρτήματα τῷ λαῷ, ἀλλ᾿ οὐ τοιαῦτα ὥστε αὐτοὺς πάντῃ ἐγκαταλεφθῆναι καὶ εἰς αἰχμαλωσίαν πολυχρόνιον παραδοθῆναι. ὅτε δὲ ἐπλήρωσαν «τὸ μέτρον τῶν πατέρων« αὐτῶν καὶ προσέθηκαν τῷ ἀνῃρηκέναι τοὺς προφήτας καὶ δεδιωχέναι τοὺς δικαίους τὸ ἀποκτεῖ- Mitte ναι «τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦ θεοῦ«, τότε γεγένηται τὸ «ἀφίεται ὑμῖν ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν. καὶ δέ αὐτὸν ταῦτα πεπόνθασιν, καὶ «ἀφανισμῷ ἠφανίσθη πᾶσα ἡ γῆ.
About this text
Origen on Jeremiah. Twenty Greek homilies survive. This page publishes the Pass B English for Homilies 1–20. The rest of the volume is still being translated.
English follows Erich Klostermann, Origenes Werke III (GCS, 1901). A second transcription of that same edition (First1KGreek TEI) was checked; where the TEI drops or garbles a line, the page image wins. This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition of the Greek. Homilies that survive only in Jerome’s Latin are not on this page yet. When they are, they will be marked at those homilies.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Klostermann, Origenes Werke III (GCS, 1901) (Greek · Homilies 1–20 Greek (this page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20))
- Checked print Archive.org page image and DjVu of GCS III (Greek · Same print as the copy-text)
- Checked print First1KGreek TEI of GCS III (Greek · Same print; encoding errors deferred to the page image)
Where the prints differ
- Homily 1.1 — The TEI omits Ἑβραῖον. English follows the GCS page image: Jonah is “a Hebrew prophet.”
- Homily 1.5 — The TEI dropped Ἰσαάκ. English follows the GCS page image: Isaac born of promise.
- Homily 1.11 — The TEI/OCR of this line is garbled. English follows the GCS page image and the quoted verse: “I have sanctified you.”
- Homily 3.2 — The TEI gaps Matthew 5:45 (sun on the evil and [gap]; rain on [gap] and the unjust). English follows the Gospel wording.
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Greek on each section for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.