Prophet’s glory; infants faint; Paul shares weakness
The prophet calls his own glory both temple of God and piety of homeland. And the famine was working the fainting of the infants. And you would say more loftily that he makes his own the passions of those kindred according to flesh according to “who is weak, and I am not weak?” (2 Corinthians 11:29)—taking up those difficult things according to their soul: a withering of true knowledge and an unstable bearing of the reasoning toward the earthly things and a deprivation of that which lifts the head according to “you, O Lord, are my helper, my glory, and the one lifting my head.” (Lamentations 2:11) (Psalm 3:3)
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 2, 11. Δόξαν ἰδίαν φησὶν ὁ προφήτης θεοῦ τε ναὸν καὶ πατρίδος εὐσέβειαν. τῶν δὲ νηπίων τὴν ἔκλυσιν ὁ λιμὸς ἀπηργάζετο. εἴποις δ' ἂν ὑψηλότερον, ὡς οἰκειοῦται τῶν συγγενὼν κατὰ σάρκα τὰ πάθη κατὰ τὸ τίς ἀσθενεῖ, καὶ οὐκ ἀσθενῶ;« τὰ κατὰ ψυχὴν ἐκείνων ἀναδεχόμενος δυσχερῆ, γνώσεως ἀληθοῦς μαρασμὸν καὶ φορὰν ἄστατον τοῦ λογισμοῦ πρὸς τὰ γήϊνα καὶ στέρησιν τῆς ὑψούσης τὴν κεφαλὴν κατὰ τὸ « σὺ κύριε , ἀντιλήπτωρ μου εἶ, δόξα μου καὶ ὑψῶν τὴν κεφαλήν μου.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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