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Origen · Adnotationes on Exodus §15.25

God's Purpose in Testing Humanity for Their Benefit

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Summary

Based on Exodus 15:25, this section explains that God's testing of humanity is not out of malice but for their benefit, so that they may obtain good through obedience.

§15.25Στίχ. κε΄. Ἐκεῖ ἔθετο αὐτῷ ὁ Θεὸς δικαώματα καὶ κρίσεις, καὶ ἐκεῖ αὐτὸν ἐπείραζε. Ἐπʼ ὠφελείᾳ πειράζει ὁ Θεός.
Verse 25 "There God established for him ordinances and judgments, and there He tested him." God tests for benefit.
Ἀπείραστος γάρ κακῶν.
For He is untempted by evil.
Ἀλλὰ διὰ τοῦτο πειράζει, ἵνα ἐὰν ὑπακούσωσιν αὐτῷ, τύχωσιν ἀγαθῶν, καὶ ἀπαλλα γῶσι κακῶν.
Rather, He tests for this reason, so that if they obey Him, they may obtain good things and be delivered from evils.

Notes

  1. 15.25Στίχ. κε΄. — Στίχ. is an abbreviation for Στίχος (verse), which, together with the Greek numeral κε΄ (25), indicates the passage of Exodus 15:25 in the Septuagint.
  2. 15.25δικαώματα — This corresponds to δικαιώματα (ordinances, statutes) in the standard Septuagint text, but is spelled here with the omission of ι (iota). It is considered a scribal variant or simple transcription error.
  3. 15.25ἀπείραστος γάρ κακῶν — A quotation of the phrase from James 1:13 in the New Testament (ὁ γὰρ θεὸς ἀπείραστός ἐστιν κακῶν). The adjective ἀπείραστος (untempted, untried) takes the genitive of agency/cause κακῶν (evils/evil things), meaning "God cannot be tempted by evil."
  4. 15.25ἵνα ἐὰν ὑπακούσωσιν αὐτῷ, τύχωσιν ἀγαθῶν, καὶ ἀπαλλα γῶσι κακῶν. — Under the government of the conjunction ἵνα (introducing a purpose clause), the conditional clause ἐὰν ὑπακούσωσιν αὐτῷ (if they obey Him) is embedded. The main verbs of the purpose clause are the subsequent aorist subjunctives τύχωσιν (obtain) and ἀπαλλαγῶσι (be delivered, though written as two words ἀπαλλα and γῶσι in the text).

Cite this passage

Origen, Adnotationes on Exodus §15.25. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg067.humanitext-grc1:15.25

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