Origen: Homilies 1-14 on Ezekiel by Origen & Thomas P. Scheck

Author:Origen & Thomas P. Scheck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Classics, Patristics, Christianity
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2010-01-04T05:00:00+00:00

(5) "And I came to you and saw you and behold, it was your time and the time of those who lead astray" [Ezek 16:8]. What is the meaning of "your time"? It signifies puberty at which time one becomes old enough to commit fornication. And again he says: "and the time of those who lead astray." Who are "those who lead astray"? While we are children [cf. 1 Cor 13:11], those who want to lead us astray and are trying to destroy us are, namely, bad Christians, unclean demons, and the angels of the devil. But they do not have the means by which they can lead us astray. But when we get a little older and are now able to sin, they seek for an opportunity to turn us aside.20 Both the angels of God and the angels of Satan do this. Now it is impossible that both of them turn us their way. If we sin, the angels of the devil are turning us their way. If we stand firm, the angels of God are turning us their way.

(6) Therefore, "your time came and the time of those who lead astray" [Ezek 16:8]. For the time of those who lead astray had come, and our Lord and God Jesus Christ again visits pitiful Jerusalem, that is, our sinful soul. "I spread my wings over you" [Ezek 16:8]. Scriptural usage speaks of the edges of garments as "wings," as in Ruth, who "went secretly and uncovered a place at the feet of Boaz" [Ruth 3:7], and she slept under the "wing" of his garment [cf. Ruth 3:9]. So God is speaking as one who is wearing a garment: "I have spread my wings over you and have covered your shame" [Ezek 16:8]. Blessed is the one whose shame God covers with his wings, but only if he perseveres in the blessedness in which Jerusalem did not wish to persevere. "And I swore to you in covenant and I entered into covenant with you" [Ezek 16:8]. After so much for which he returns again, turns away again, after such frequent visitations, now for the first time he "enters a covenant" with her.

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