Heretic gifts that touch the clouds; asp gall and iron word
"If his gifts go up into heaven and his sacrifice touches the clouds" — even of the impious. When a heretic prays, when sacrifice rises by high-speaking, when he seems fixed firm, then he is destroyed utterly. "His prayer is reckoned to him as sin; the prayer itself is sin. "When he seems already fixed, then he is destroyed utterly." Like "the enemies of the Lord: when they are glorified and exalted, they fail as smoke." Those who see him — we of the church who see their errors — will say, "Where is he?" "Like a dream flown away, he will not be found." Such people dream and mold fantasies; they do not rest the mind on truth, and become a dream that cannot be found.
"Let lesser ones destroy his sons" — sons and disciples of the teacher of these things. "Let his hands torch pains": the deeds kindle punishment; this impious man’s hands will spend him in last pains — spoken also of the lawless one’s sons. "Gall of an asp is in his belly:" teachings not sweet but asp gall — the wine of their doctrine. "From the vine of Sodom is their vine." Asp gall sits in the belly of the heterodox and of anyone impious in doctrines opposite the truth.
"Wealth gathered unjustly will be vomited out." What wealth is that but the wealth in their words? The Good One will not let the fallen keep unjust wealth forever; he makes them vomit it. "An angel will drag him from his house" — from the badly built house that is a church of evildoers — by God’s energy and kindness. "May he not see the milking of pastures." The heterodox do not see that milking. Pastures are souls under the good Shepherd: "I am the door; if anyone enters through me he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture."
"Like tough herb, unchewed, unswallowable:" words and doctrines against God are tough and dense, with nothing sweet. As that plant cannot be swallowed even when chewed hard, so the one who wants alien enjoyments carries off no profit from the toil. "For this his good things will not bloom; when he seems filled, he is afflicted. Belongings cannot buy him salvation. "Every necessity will come upon him; wrath of anger is sent" — hortatory so we stand off from alien things. Pains come like a snowstorm. "He will not be saved from a hand of iron": not perceptible iron, but a most cutting word.
Greek
Στίχ. ʹ. Ἐὰν ἀναβῇ εἰς οὐρανὸν αὐτοῦ τὰ δῶρα· ἡ δὲ θυσία αὐτοῦ νεφῶν ἅψηται. Τοῦ ἀσεβοῦς ἐὰν ἀναβῇ τὰ δῶρα εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν, ἐὰν πάνυ ὑψωθῇ, ἐὰν ἡ θυσία αὐτοῦ νεφῶν ἅψηται. Ὅτ' ἂν εὔξηται ὁ αἱρετικὸς, ὅτ' ἂν ἡ θυσία αὐτοῦ ἀναβῇ τῇ ὑψηγορίᾳ, ὅτ' ἂν δοκῇ κατεστηρίχθαι· τότε εἰς τέλος ἀπολεῖται. Ἡ γὰρ εὐχὴ αὐτοῦ λο γίζεται αὐτῷ εἰς ἁμαρτίαν, καὶ ἔστιν αὐτὴ ἡ εὐχὴ αὐτοῦ ἁμαρτία. Στίχ. ζʹ. Ὅταν γὰρ δοκῇ ἤδη ἐστηρίχθαι, τότε εἰς τέλος ἀπολεῖται. Ὅμοιον, Οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ τοῦ Κυρίου ἅμα τῷ δοξα σθῆναι καὶ ὑψωθῆναι, ἐκλείποντες ὡσεὶ καπνὸς ἐξέλιπον. Στίχ. ζʹ. Οἱ δὲ ἰδόντες αὐτὸν ἐροῦσι· Ποῦ ἔστιν; Τίνες οἱ ἰδόντες αὐτόν; Οἱ ἐκκλησιαστικοὶ, οἱ ἰδόντες ἐκείνων τὰ σφάλματα, ἐροῦμεν· Ποῦ ἔστιν; Στίχ. ηʹ. Ὥσπερ ἐνύπνιον ἐκπετασθὲν οὐ μὴ εὑρεθῇ. Οἱ τοιοῦτοι ἐνυπνιαζόμενοι, καὶ ἀναπλάσσοντες φαντάσματα, οὐ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ τὴν διάνοιαν ἐπερείδου σιν σφαλλόμενοι, καὶ γίνονται ὥσπερ ἐνύπνιον ἐκπετασθὲν, ὃ οὐ μὴ εὑρεθῇ. Στίχ. ιʹ. Τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ ὀλέσαισαν ἥττονες. Τοὺς υἱοὺς καὶ μαθητὰς τοῦ ταῦτα διδάξαντος. Στίχ. ιʹ. Αἱ δὲ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ πυρσεύσαισαν ὀδύνας. Αἱ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ, φησὶν, τουτέστιν αἱ πράξεις, ἐξά ψουσιν αὐτῷ κόλασιν. Αἱ δὲ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ. Τοῦ ἀσεβοῦς τούτου καὶ ἐσφαλμένου, οὗ ἡ προσευχὴ λογίζεται εἰς ἁμαρ τίαν, οὗ ἡ θυσία ἐὰν ἀναβῇ εἰς οὐρανὸν, καὶ νε 17.73 φῶν ἅψηται, τότε εἰς τέλος ἀπόλλυται· τούτου αἱ χεῖρες ὀδύνας πυρσεύσουσι· τουτέστι, καὶ ἐν ὀδύναις ἐσχάταις διάξουσι. Λέγει δὲ περὶ τῶν υἱῶν τοῦ πα ρανόμου. Στίχ. ιγʹ. Χολὴ ἀσπίδος ἐν γαστρὶ αὐτοῦ. Ἔχει γὰρ μαθήματα, ἃ οὐκ ἔστι γλυκέα, ἀλλὰ χολὴ ἀσπίδος, οἱονεὶ πονηρὰ, ἡ περὶ τοῦ οἴνου τῆς διδασκαλίας αὐτῶν. Ἐκ γὰρ ἀμπέλου Σοδόμων ἡ ἄμπελος αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα· Χολὴ δὲ ἀσπίδος ἐν γαστρὶ τοῦ ἑτεροδόξου, καὶ ἀσεβοῦντος ἐν τοῖς δόγμασι, τοῖς ἐναντίοις τῇ ἀληθείᾳ. Στίχ. ιεʹ. Πλοῦτος ἀδίκως συναγόμενος ἐξε μεθήσεται. Τίς γὰρ ἄλλος ἀδίκως πλοῦτος συνάγεται ἢ ἐκεῖ νος ὁ ἐν τοῖς λόγοις αὐτῶν; Ἀδίκως γὰρ συνάγεται. Ἀλλ' ὁ ἀγαθὸς οὐκ ἐάσει αὐτοὺς πεπτωκότας, πλοῦ τον ἀδίκως συναγόμενον ἔχειν ἀεὶ αὐτὸν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς· ποιήσει γὰρ ἐξεμέσαι. Στίχ. ιεʹ. Ἐξ οἰκίας αὐτοῦ ἐξελκύσει αὐτὸν ἄγγελος. Ἄγγελος γὰρ κατ' ἐνέργειαν καὶ εὐεργεσίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐξελκύσει αὐτὸν ἀπ' αὐτῆς τῆς κακῶς οἰκοδο μηθείσης, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἐκκλησία πονηρευομένων. Αὕτη γὰρ ἡ οἰκία αὐτοῦ. Ἀλλ' ἄγγελος ἐξελκύσει αὐτὸν ἐξ οἰκίας αὐτοῦ. Στίχ. ιζʹ. Μὴ ἴδοι ἄμελξιν νομάδων. Ἑτερόδοξος οὐ βλέπει ἄμελξιν νομάδων. Νο μάδες δὲ εἰσί τινες ψυχαὶ νεμόμεναι ὑπὸ τῷ καλῷ Ποιμένι, τῷ εἰπόντι· Ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ θύρα. ∆ι' ἐμοῦ ἐάν τις εἰσέλθῃ, σωθήσεται. Καὶ εἰσελεύσεται, καὶ ἐξελεύσεται, καὶ νομὴν εὑρήσει. Στίχ. ιηʹ. Ὥσπερ στρίφνος ἀμάσητος, ἀκατά ποτος. Οἱ λόγοι καὶ τὰ δόγματα στριφνὰ καὶ πυκνὰ, οὐ δὲν ἔχει γλυκὺ ἐκεῖνα, τὰ κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ γινόμενα. Στρίφνος βοτάνη, τίς ἐστιν ἐκτραχυνομένη τῇ γλώσσῃ τοῦ μασσωμένου. Ὥσπερ οὖν, φησὶ, τὴν βοτάνην ἐκείνην, κἂν ἄγαν τις φιλονεικήσειε διαλεά νας τοῖς ὀδοῦσι, καταπιεῖν οὐ δύναται· οὕτω καὶ ὁ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἀπολαύειν ἐθέλων οὐδὲν τῶν πόνων ἀποίσεται τὸ κέρδος. Στίχ. κʹ. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀνθήσει αὐτοῦ τὰ ἀγαθά. Ἂ δοκεῖ ἀγαθὰ ποιεῖν, οὐκ ἀνθήσει· ὅτ' ἂν δοκῇ ἤδη πεπληρῶσθαι, θλιβήσεται. Στίχ. κʹ. Οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ σωτηρία τοῖς ὑπάρχουσι. Τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ σωτηρίαν αὐτῷ περιποιῆσαι οὐ δύναται. Ἄλλως. Στίχ. κβʹ. Πᾶσα δὲ ἀνάγκη αὐτὸν ἐπελεύσεται, καὶ ἐπαποστελεῖ ἐπ' αὐτὸν θυμὸν ὀργῆς. Στίχ. κβʹ. Πᾶσα δὲ ἀνάγκη ἐπ' αὐτὸν ἐπελεύ σεται. Ταῦτα προτρεπτικὰ ἡμῖν, ἵνα ἀφιστώμεθα τῶν ἀλλοτρίων. 17.76 Στίχ. κβʹ. Νίψαι ἐπ' αὐτὸν ὀδύνας. Ἀντὶ νιφετοῦ ὀδύναι ἔρχονται ἐπὶ τὸν τοιοῦτον. Στίχ. κδʹ. Καὶ οὐ μὴ σωθῇ ἐκ χειρὸς σιδήρου. Σίδηρον οὐ λέγει τοῦτον τὸν αἰσθητὸν, ἀλλὰ τμη τικώτατον λόγον.
About this text
Origen of Alexandria, Enarrationes in Job (Greek).
Original English Translation of Origen’s Enarrationes in Job — new OET from PG 17 Greek.
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Khazarzar scan
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- Copy-text PG 17 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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