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16 Mar 2018

Drunkards and Fornicators

Πᾶς γὰρ μέθυσος καὶ πορνοκόπος πτωχεύσει καὶ ἐνδύσεται διερρηγμένα καὶ ῥακώδη πᾶς ὑπνώδης

Πᾶς ὁ ἐν κακίᾳ μέθυσος, καὶ ὁ ἐκ σοφίας πρὸς ἀγνωσίαν καταπορνεύων, πτωχεύσει ἐκ θείας χάριτος· καὶ οὐκ ἐνδύσεται ἔνδυμα τοῦ γάμου πᾶς ὁ ἐν τῇ δαιμονιώδει νυκτὶ ὑπνώδης, ἀλλὰ τὴν ῥάκος τετραυματισμένην σάρκα διαθλίβων γεένης φλογα.


Ὠριγένης, Ἐκλογαὶ Εἰς Παροιμίας


For every drunkard and fornicator shall be impoverished and he shall rise up torn and drowsy in rags. 1

Everyone who is drunk on wickedness has departed from wisdom and fornicates with ignorance, and impoverished he is of God's grace. And unendowed with the vestment of the bridegroom is everyone who sleeps in the demoniacal night, but like a rag his wounded flesh is ravaged by the fire of Ghenna.


Origen, On Proverbs, Fragment

1 Prov 23.21






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