The Wealth Of Heretics

Πεπαλαίωνται δὲ καὶ ἐν πλούτῳ Οὐκ εἰσὶ νεόπλουτοι, ἀλλὰ πολλὰ ἔτι πεποιήκασι πλουτοῦντες καὶ ἀεὶ τὸν πλοῦτον αὔξοντες. Ὁ σπόπος αὐτῶν κατὰ ψυχήν Τοῦ μὲν δικαίου ὁ σπόρος κατὰ πνεῦμα ἐστι· Σπείρει γὰρ εἰς τὸ πνεῦμα, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος θερίζει ζωὴν αἰώνιον· τῶν δὲ τοιούτων, ἐπεὶ ψυχικὸς ἄνθρωπος οὐ δέχεται τὰ τοῦ τοῦ πνεύματος· μωρία γὰρ αὐτῷ ἐστιν· ὁ σπόρος οὐ κατὰ πνεῦμα, ἀλλὰ κατὰ ψυχὴν, τὸ ὑποδεέστερον. Τὰ δὲ τέκνα αὐτῶν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Πάνατα ὅσα ποιοῦσιν, πρὸς τὸ θεαθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ποιοῦσιν. Τέκνα γὰρ τὰ ἔργα ἐκάστου. Οὐκ ἔστι τέκνα τῶν ἑτεροδόξων ἐν καρδίᾳ, ἐν λογισμοῖς ἀγαθοῖς, ἀλλ' ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς, πρὸς τὸ θεαθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. Οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν εὐθηνοῦσιν. Ὁτ' ἂν εἰσέλθῇς εἰς συναγωγὴν αἱρετικῶν, καὶ ἴδῆς ἐκεῖ πλῆθος συναγομένων, βλέπε, ὅτι οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν εὐθηνοῦσιν. Φόβος δὲ οὐδραμοῦ. Ἀφοβοί εἰσιν. Οὐ φοβοῦνται τὸν Θεὸν, καταφρονοῦσι τῆς θεότητος· τοιαῦτα λέγοντες περὶ Θεοῦ, οὐ φοβοῦνται, ὅτι περὶ Θεοῦ λαλοῦσιν. Ὠριγένης, Ἐξηγητικα Εἰς Τὸν Ιὠβ, Κεφ. ΚΑ' Source: Migne PG17.75d-77b

They have grown old in their wealth..1 They are not newly enriched, but they have been making their wealth for a long time and their wealth is always growing. Their seed is as their souls...2 Indeed the seed of the righteous man is as his spirit, 'For he sows in the spirit and according to the spirit he reaps eternal life.' 3 These however, because they are 'animal men who do not receive the things of the spirit' 4 have seed that is not according to the spirit, but according to their own souls, certainly inferior. Their children are before their eyes... 2 Everything they do they do to be seen by men. 5 For their children are their works. The children of heresy are not in the heart, or good thoughts, but in the eyes, that they may be seen by men. Their houses flourish....6 If you enter into a gathering of heretics, and you look upon the many gathered there, so see that their houses flourish. They have no fear...6 Fearless they are. Despising the Divine, they do not fear God. The things they say about God they do not fear that they speak about God. Origen, On Job, Chap 21, Fragment 1 Job 21.7 2 Job 21.8 3 Galat 6.8 4 1 Cor 2.14 5 Mt 23.5 6 Job 21.9