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Origen · Fragments from the Commentary on Ezekiel §30.25

The Breaking of Pharaoh's Arms and the Devil's Power

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Summary

This is a commentary on Ezekiel 30:25, interpreting the arms of Pharaoh as sinful practices and impious thoughts, and explaining how God shatters the power of Pharaoh, who symbolizes the devil.

§30.251.
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Cod. 221 a.
Cod. 221 a.
Cap.
Cap.
XXX. 25.
XXX. 25.
Βραχίονές εῖαι Φαραὼ ἡ κακία ἐν πράξει ἁμαρτίας, καὶ ἐν δόγμασιν ἀσεβείας τὸ φρόνημα τῆς σαρκός· οὓς βραχίονας ὁ Θεὸς συντρίβει ὡς ἀγαθός· ὁ Φαραὼ τοῦ διαβόλου ἐστὶ σύμβολον τοῦ ἄρχοντος τῆς ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἁμαρτίας. —Συντρίβει ὁ Κύριος τὸν βραχίονα τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν, ἵνα μὴ δύνωνται ἐπιλαβέσθαι μαχαίρας.
The arms of Pharaoh are wickedness in the practice of sin, and the mind of the flesh in the doctrines of impiety; which arms God, as good, shatters; Pharaoh is a symbol of the devil, the ruler of sin among men. —The Lord shatters the arm of sinners, so that they may not be able to lay hold of a sword.

Notes

  1. 30.25εῖαι — A scribal error in the codex. Based on the context and agreement with the plural subject (the two singular nouns ἡ κακία and τὸ φρόνημα connected by καί), it is interpreted as the third-person plural present indicative copula εἰσί (or εἰσίν).
  2. 30.25οὓς βραχίονας — A relative adjective construction where the relative pronoun οὕς incorporates the noun βραχίονας into the relative clause (antecedent attraction).
  3. 30.25ἐπιλαβέσθαι μαχαίρας — The middle infinitive ἐπιλαβέσθαι (aorist of ἐπιλαμβάνομαι, meaning 'to grasp' or 'to lay hold of') takes its object in the genitive case (μαχαίρας).

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Origen, Fragments from the Commentary on Ezekiel §30.25. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg061.humanitext-grc1:30.25

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