Oracle against Edom; Christ sacks the Earthly
The word is toward those from Edom and Esau the brother of Jacob, foretelling an excess of evils for them (for this is the “you will be drunk and you will pour out” (Lamentations 4:21)), about whom David also says: “remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, those saying: empty, empty, until the foundation in it.” (Psalm 137:7) For being brothers and neighbors, they preserved the ancestral hate. And having spoken about Christ unto a season he also remembered this. For Christ was about to sack the one called Earthly, working a heavenly. For virtue and knowledge are threatening toward those who love errors and passions—whose drunkenness is the death of the flesh, and over-outpouring also the putting-to-death of its mindset (Romans 8:6).
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 4, 21. Ὁ λόγος πρὸς τοὺς ἐξ Ἐδὼμ καὶ Ἡσαῦ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Ἰακώβ, ὑπερβολὴν αὐτοῖς προαγορεύων κακῶν τοῦτο γὰρ τὸ μεθυσθήσῃ καὶ ἀποχεεῖς), περὶ ὧν φησι καὶ Δαβίδ· «μνήσθητι, κύριε, τῶν υἱῶν Ἐδὼμ τὴν ἡμέραν Ἱερουσαλήμ, τῶν λεγόντων· ἐκκενοῦτε, ἐκκενοῦτε ἕως οὗ ὁ θεμέλιος ἐν αὐτῇ. ἀδελφοὶ γὰρ ὄντες καὶ γείτονες, τὸ προγονικὸν διεφύλαξαν μῖσος. περὶ δὲ Χριστοῦ φήσας εἰς καιρὸν καὶ ταύτης ἐμνήσθη. τὴν γὰρ Γήϊνον προσαγορευομένην πορθεῖν ἔμελλεν ὁ Χριστός, οὐράνιον ἐργαζόμενος. ἀπειλητικὸν γὰρ ἡ ἀρετή τε καὶ γνῶσις πρὸς τοὺς φιληδοῦντας πλάναις καὶ πάθεσιν, ὧν μέθη μὲν ἡ νέκρωσις τῆς σαρκός, ὑπερέκχυσις δὲ καὶ τὸ νεκρῶσαι ταύτης τὸ φρόνημα.
About this text
Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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