Judah exchanged her place through humiliation and slavery to passions
Toward the wording the sense would be such: Judea exchanged her own place, these things having become causes for her—her humiliation (in which she was humbled when she sinned and left behind the stature and the raised-up condition she formerly had while remaining in piety), and further also her much slavery, to which she had been enslaved when subjected to the passions. And having been relocated she settled among nations, where she has not been able to find rest, all the enemies pursuing her and overtaking and mastering her, she having come to be among the nations that were afflicting her (Lamentations 1:3).
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 1, 3. πρὸς μὲν τὸ ῥητὸν τοιοῦτος ἂν εἴη ὁ νοῦς· τὸν ἴδιον τόπον ἡ Ἰουδαὶα ἤμειψεν, αἰτίων τούτων γενομένων αὐτῇ τῆς ταπεινώσεως αὐτῆς (ἣν τεταπείνωνται ἁμαρτοῦσα καὶ τὸ ἀνάστημα καὶ τὸ ἐγηγερμένον, ὃ πρότερον εἶχεν ἐν θεοσεβείᾳ ὑπάρχουσα, καταλιποῦσα), ἔτι δὲ καὶ τῆς πολλῆς δουλείας αὐτῆς, ἣν δεδούλωτο ὑποτεταγμένη τοῖς πάθεσιν. μετοικισθεῖσα δὲ ἐν ἔθνασιν ἱδρύνθη, ἔνθα εὑρεῖν ἀνάπαυσιν οὐ δεδύνηται, πάντων τῶν ἐχθρῶν καταδιωκόντων αὐτὴν καὶ καταλαβόντων καὶ κατακεκρατηκότων, αὐτῆς γενομένης παρὰ τοῖς ἔθνεσιν οἳ ἔθλιβον αὐτήν.
About this text
Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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