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- Origenes. Origenis Opera Omnia, Volume 2 (Patrologia Graeca, Tomus 12). La Rue, Charles de, editor; La Rue, Charles Vincent de, editor. Paris: J. P. Migne, 1862.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
The text quotes various legal regulations from Deuteronomy (remembering God, prohibition of foreign sacrifices, not adding or subtracting from the law, clean and unclean animals, the distinction between feasts and assemblies, landmarks, and witnesses) and comments on them in light of spiritual interpretation and Christ's New Testament teachings.
Πρόσεχε σεαυτῷ, μὴ ἐπιλάθῃ Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου. Μετὰ τὴν τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐπαγγελίαν εἰς νῆψιν αὐτοὺς διανίστησιν, τοῦ εὐεργέτου μεμνῆσθαι, καὶ μὴ ἐξυβρίζειν τῷ κόρῳ, μηδὲ περιφρονεῖν τοῦ ταῦτα δωρησαμένου, καὶ ὅτι1 ἐκ τῆς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ δουλείας εἰς ἐλευθερίαν αὐτοὺς μετεκόμισεν.
”Take heed to yourself, lest you forget the Lord your God.” After the promise of good things, he rouses them to sobriety, to remember their benefactor, and not to wax wanton through satiety, nor to despise the one who gifted these things, and [to remember] that he brought them out of the slavery in Egypt into freedom.
Οὐ ποιήσεις οὕτως Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σου. Αἰτιᾶται τὸ θύειν τὰ ἑαυτῶν τέκνα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοῖς θεοῖς τῶν ἐθνῶν, ὡς ὠμὸν καὶ ἀπάνθρωπον· ὡς βδελυκτόν. Καὶ τοὺς λέγοντας θύσαι θεοῖς τῶν ἐθνῶν οὐ μόνον ἀποστρέφεσθαι δεῖ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἀκοὴν τοῖς λόγοις αὐτῶν μὴ ὑπέχειν.
”You shall not do so to the Lord your God.” He accuses the sacrificing of their own children by men to the gods of the nations as cruel and inhuman, and as an abomination. And those who say to sacrifice to the gods of the nations must not only be turned away from, but one must not even lend an ear to their words.
Οὐ προσθήσεις ἐπʼ αὐτὸ, οὐδὲ ἀφελεῖς ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ. Οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἁμαρτάνοντες γενικῷ λόγῳ διχῶς ἁμαρτάνουσιν, ἢ ὑπερβαίνοντες τὰς ἐντολὰς ἢ ὑποκενοῦντες. Ὅταν γὰρ μὴ ἀπὸ ἐπιστήμης πολιτευόμεθα,2 μηδὲ γινώσκοντες τὰ μέτρα τῆς δικαιοσύνης σφαλλόμεθα, καὶ ἔσθʼ ὅτε ὑπερβαίνοντες τὸν κανόνα, φαντασίᾳ τοῦ ποιεῖν τι κρεῖττον, ἐκπίπτομεν τοῦ προκειμένου.
”You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.” Men when they sin, generally speaking, sin in two ways: either by transgressing the commandments or by falling short of them. For when we do not live according to knowledge, nor knowing the measures of justice do we err, and sometimes transgressing the rule, with the fantasy of doing something better, we fall away from what is set before us.
Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Οἱ οὗν μὴ ποιοῦντες πάντα, ἢ οἱ πλεῖόν τι ποιοῦντες, παράνομοι.
By the same author. Those, therefore, who do not do all things, or those who do something more, are transgressors.
Πᾶν κτῆνος διχηλοῦν ὁπλὴν, καὶ ἀνάγον μηρυκισμόν. Τὸ μὲν διχηλεῖν ἐπὶ τῆς ὁπλῆς, τὴν πορείαν καθʼ ἣν πρὸς πᾶν ὁτιοῦν ἐρχόμεθα τῶν ἀγαθῶν σπουδασμάτων ἐμφάνειεν· ὁ δὲ μηρυκισμὸς, τὸ ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω ποιεῖν τῆς θεοπνεύστου Γραφῆς τοὺς λόγους, καὶ οἷον ἀναμασᾶσθαι καὶ καταλεπτύνειν ἐρεύναις τὰ κεκρυμμένα τῶν θεωρημάτων.
”Every beast that parts the hoof and chews the cud.” The parting of the hoof indicates the path along which we come to any of the good endeavors; while the chewing of the cud is the turning of the words of the divinely inspired Scripture up and down, and, as it were, ruminating and refining by investigations the hidden aspects of the doctrines.
Πάντα ὅσα ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτοῖς πτερύγια καὶ λεπίδες, φάγεσθε. Τῶν πτηνῶν οἶμαι ὅσα μὲν σκόλοπας ἔχει κατωτέρω τῶν γονάτων ὑπὲρ τὰς βάσεις καθαρὰ εἶναι βούλεται· ὅσα δὲ μὴ, ἀκάθαρτα. Ἑορτὴν σκηνῶν ποιήσεις σεαυτῷ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας.
”Of all that are in the waters, you shall eat whatever has fins and scales.” Of the winged creatures, I think that those which have legs above their feet for leaping below their knees are intended to be clean; but those which do not, are unclean. “You shall keep the feast of tabernacles for seven days.”
Εὑρίσκομεν ἐν ταῖς Γραφαῖς τὸ ὄνομα τῆς ἑορτῆς καὶ τῆς πανηγύρεως, ὥσπερ παρὰ τῷ προφήτῃ λέγοντι· « Τί ποιήσετε ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πανηγύρεως καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἑορτῆς Κυρίου; » Ζητητέον τὴν διαφορὰν ἑορτῆς καὶ πανηγύρεως. Πᾶσα μὲν οὖν, ἵνʼ οὕτως εἴπω, ἱλαρὰ ἡμέρα, ἐν ᾗ προστέτακται ὡς ἐν ἁγίᾳ τάδε τινὰ παρὰ τὰς λοιπὰς ποιεῖν ἐξαίρετα, ἑορτὴ καλεῖται· οὐ πᾶσα δέ ἐστι πανήγυρις, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ ὄνομα, ὅτε ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ συναθροίζονται οἱ πανταχόθεν Ἑβραῖοι. ὥστε κατὰ τοῦτο τὴν μὲν πανήγυριν εἶναι ἑορτὴν, οὐκέτι δὲ πάντως τὴν ἑορτὴν πανήγυριν· οἷον σάββατα καὶ νεομηνίαι, ἑορταί εἰσιν· ἄζυμα δὲ καὶ αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἑβδομάδων καὶ σκηνοπηγίαι οὐ μόνον αἱ ἑορταὶ, ἀλλὰ καὶ πανηγύρεις, ὅτε προστέτακται πᾶν ἀρσενικὸν φαίνεσθαι ἐνώπιον Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου εἰς τὸν τόπον ὅν ἂν ἐκλέξηται.
We find in the Scriptures the name of ‘feast’ and ‘solemn assembly,’ just as the prophet says: “What will you do in the day of solemn assembly and in the day of the feast of the Lord?” We must seek the difference between ‘feast’ and ‘solemn assembly.’ Every joyful day, so to speak, in which it is commanded as on a holy day to perform certain special things besides the other days, is called a ‘feast’; but not every feast is a ‘solemn assembly,’ but according to the name, it is when the Hebrews from everywhere gather together in the same place. So in this respect, while a solemn assembly is a feast, a feast is not altogether a solemn assembly; for instance, Sabbaths and new moons are ‘feasts’; but unleavened bread, the days of weeks, and tabernacles are not only ‘feasts,’ but also ‘solemn assemblies,’ when it is commanded that every male appear before the Lord your God in the place which He shall choose.
Οὐ μετακινήσεις ὅρια τοῦ πλησίον σου. Πλησίον πολλαχοῦ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος εἴρηται.
”You shall not move your neighbor’s landmarks.” ‘Neighbor’ is said in many places of every man.
Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Οὔτε γὰρ δεῖ τοὺς πέλας πλεονεκτεῖν, οὐδὲ τοὺς τῶν πατέρων ὅρους ὡς καλῶς παγέντας παρακελεύειν. Τοῦτο γὰρ αἴτιον πάσης συγχύσεως ἔσται, τῶν μὲν ὁμορούντων ὡς ἀδικουμένων, περιφρονουμένων3 δὲ τῶν ὁρισάντων. Πλησίον δέ τινες πάντα ἄνθρωπον λέγουσιν.
By the same author. For one must neither defraud the neighbor, nor encourage moving the landmarks of the fathers, since they were well fixed. For this will be the cause of all confusion, while those who border on them are wronged, and those who set the boundaries are despised. And some say ‘neighbor’ means every man.
Ἐὰν δὲ καταστῇ μάρτυς ἄδικος κατὰ ἀνθρώπου. Ταῦτα μὲν ὁ νόμος πρὸς ἀσθενεῖς τοὺς Ἰσραηλίτας· ὁ δὲ Κύριος ὁ ταῦτα νομοθετήσας τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ μαθηταῖς φησιν· « Ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐῤῥήθη, Ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ, » καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς, « Ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, μὴ ἀντιστῆναι τῷ πονηρῷ. »
”If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man.” The law commanded these things to the weak Israelites; but the Lord who legislated these things says to his own disciples: “You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye,” and so forth, “But I say to you, do not resist the evil man.”
Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Ταῦτα μὲν ἐπὶ αἰσθητοῦ καὶ τῶν κατὰ κόσμον, ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἡμαρτημένων ἡμῖν, οὐδενὸς δεῖται Θεός. Αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐπόπτης ἁπάντων καὶ κριτής.
By the same author. These things indeed concern the sensible and the things of the world, but regarding our sins, God has need of nothing. For He Himself is the overseer and judge of all.
- 13καὶ ὅτι
The ὅτι clause introduced by the conjunction καὶ functions as the grammatical object of the preceding infinitive μεμνῆσθαι ('to remember'), meaning 'and [to remember] that...'. It is coordinated with the genitive noun object τοῦ εὐεργέτου.
- 15πολιτευόμεθα
The present indicative (likewise with the following σφαλλόμεθα and ἐκπίπτομεν) is used after the conjunction ὅταν instead of the subjunctive which is standard in classical Greek. This is a typical grammatical variation in Koine and later Greek.
- 21περ φρονουμένων
This is a word-division error for περιφρονουμένων, the present middle-passive participle genitive plural of the compound verb. It structures two genitive absolute clauses, τῶν μὲν ὁμορούντων ὡς ἀδικουμένων and περιφρονουμένων δὲ τῶν ὁρισάντων, contrasted by μὲν and δέ.
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-05-22) · Revision history (5, latest 2026-09-22)
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