Fragments on Lamentations · §50

Measuring line stretches the punishment

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For he has taken away all her security, having stretched out the measure of the punishment—which indeed Zechariah also has seen (Lamentations 2:8) (Zechariah 2:1–2).

Greek

Klagel. Jerem. 2, 8. Πᾶσαν γὰρ αὐτῆς ἀφεῖλεν ἀσφάλειαν, τῆς τιμωρίας ἐκτείνας τὸ μέτρον· ὃ δὴ καὶ Ζαχαρίας τεθέαται.

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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.

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