{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2042.tlg012.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg012.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg012.local001","title":"Fragmentum in Lamentationes (In Catenis de Octateucho)","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Origenes","authorityName":"ORIGENES Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2042-origenes/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2042-origenes/","editors":["Erich Klostermann"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Origenes Werke","edition":null,"publisher":"J. C. Hinrichs'Sche Buchhandlung","place":"Leipzig","date":"1901","volume":"3","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/origeneswerke03orig/page/279/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Origenes. Fragmentum in Lamentationes (In Catenis de Octateucho). ed. Erich Klostermann. Origenes Werke, Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs'Sche Buchhandlung, 1901. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg012.local001","excerpt":"Ὠριγένους εἰς το αὐτὸ ἐκ τῶν εἰς τοὺς Θρήνους. Τίς γὰρ τὸ >δίκαιον οὐ δικαίως ; διαλαβόντες δὲ ἐκεῖνο, εὐχερῶς καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦτο μετελευσόμεθα, ὅτι ἔστι δικαίως τὸ ἄδικον διώκειν. ἐξήγησις μὲν τοῦ δικαίως τὸ δίκαιον διώκειν αὔτη, ἐπὰν καὶ τὸ πραττόμενον καθῆκον ᾖ, καὶ ὑγιεῖ διαθέσει ἐνεργῆται· ὡς εἴ τις σωφροσύνην δι’ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ δέ αὐτὴν κατορθώσαι, Ἰωσὴφ ἀναγέγραπται πεποιηκέναι. τοῦ δὲ ἀδίκως τὸ δίκαιον διώκειν ἡ σαφήνειά ἐστι τοιαύτη, ἐπὰν τὸ καθῆκον μέν τις ἐπιτελῇ, προθέσει δὲ μοχθηρᾷ, ὡς εἴ τις δόξαν τὴν παρ’ ἀνθρώποις θηρώμενος κοινωνήσαι τῶν ὑπαρχόντων πένησιν, ὅπερ ἀπαγορεύων ὁ σωτήρ φησιν· »ἐὰν ποιῇς ἐλεημοσύνην, μὴ σαλπίσῃς ἔμπροσθέν σου, ὥσπερ οἱ ὑποκριταὶ ποιοῦσιν ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς καὶ ἐν ταῖς ῥύμαις, ὅπως δοξασθῶσιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων«. τὸ δὲ δικαίως τὸ ἄδικον ποιεῖν νοηθείη ἄν, ὅταν προθέσει τὰ κρείττονα ποιεῖν τις προελόμενος παρ ἄγνοιαν τοῦ καλοῦ πράττῃ τὰ χείρονα· ὁποῖός…","divisions":[{"label":"Das Fragment aus der Oktateuchkatene.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg012.local001/1-das-fragment-aus-der-oktateuchkatene/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042.tlg012.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2042.tlg012.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2042/tlg012/local001.json.gz"}}