Coming Into An Inheritance

Αἴτησαι παρ' ἐμου καὶ δώσω σοι ἔθνη τὴν κληρονομίαν σου, καὶ τὴν κατάσχεσίν σου τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς κ.τ.ἑ. Τέθειτα γὰρ ὡς ἄνθρωπος κληρονόμος πάντων οἰκομικῶς, ἵνα λοιπὸν ὡς αὐτῷ προσήκοντά τε καὶ ἵδιον ἀνασώσῃ κλῆρον τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἀνοσίως διεσπαρμένους ὑπὸ τε τοῦ διαβόλου καὶ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ δυνάμεων πονηρῶν· οὗ καὶ εἰς πέρας ἐνηνεγμένου πρὸς τὸν ἑαυτον Πατέρα φησὶ περὶ ἡμων· Οὔς δέδωκάς μοι ἐκ τοῦ κόσμοῦ, σοὶ ἧσαν, καὶ ἐμοὶ αὐτοὺς δέδωκάς. Ἅρθει δὴ οὖν ὅπως εἰς τὸν ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῷ πλοῦτον κατὰ φύσιν ἄνεισι καὶ μετὰ σαρκός. Εἰ γὰρ ἧσαν οἱ ἐν κόσμῳ τοῦ Πατρὸς, κατά τινα τρόπον νοηθεῖεν ἂν τοῦ συμβουλεύοντος αὐτῷ Λόγου· τοιγάρτοι καὺ ἔφασκε· Πάντα τὰ ἐμα σά ἐστι, καὶ τὰ σὰ ἐμά· καὶ δεδόξασμαι ἐν αὐτοῖς. Πῶς οὖν αἰτεῖν προστάττεται, καὶ δέχεται μὲν εἰς κληρονομίαν ἔθνη, κατασχεσιν δὲ ποιεῖται τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς; Ἀποσκιρτήσαντα γὰρ ἐξιτήλως τὸν ἄνθρωπον δουλείας τῆς ὑπὸ Θεοῦ, διασῶσαι θέλων τοῦτον Γενεσιουργὸς καὶ Πατὴρ πέπομγεν εἰς τόνδε τὸν ἐνεστηκότα κόσμον τὸν μονογενῆ Λόγον, ἵνα γενόμενος σὰρξ, καὶ χωρηθεὶς, καὶ φύσει ἀστραφὴς, κηρύξῃ αἰχμαλώτοις ἄφεσιν, καὶ τυφλοῖς ἀνάβλεψιν. Οὐκοῦν κἂν εἰ λέγοιτο λαβεῖν καὶ τεθεῖσθαι κληρονόμος διὰ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον, οὐκ ἀγνοήσωμεν τὴν οἰκονομίαν. Ὠριγένης, Ἐκλογαί Εἰς Ψαλμους, Ψαλμος Β' Source: Migne PG 12.1107a-c

Ask of me and I shall give to you the nations for your inheritance and your possession the ends of the earth, etc. 1 For placed as a man who is the inheritor of all by the dispensation, and thus as one coming into His own and proper inheritance, He gathers up those who have been dispersed across the earth by the devil and by those with him who are strong in evil. For the dispensation is already given, since concerning us He said, 'Those you have given to me from the world, yours they were, and you have given them to me.' 2 Consider, then, how coming to His wealth according to the flesh He ascended even with the flesh. For if these who were in the world were the Father's, thus one can understand how in this way the Word received His counsel, for certainly he said, 'Everything mine is yours, and yours mine, and I am glorified in them.' 3 How then is He asked to request that He have His inheritance of the nations and make His possession the end of the earth? Without doubt when He wished to save men who shrank from Divine service, the Begetter and Father of the Only Begotten Word sent Him into the world, that made flesh, and encompassed, in nature not changed, He preach forgiveness to captives, and give light to the blind. Thus although one may say that He was made an inheritor by his taking of humanity, we should not be ignorant of the dispensation. Origen, Excerpta On the Psalms, from Psalm 2 1 Ps 2.8 2 Jn 17.6 3 Jn 17.10