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Translated by John Patrick.
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4. Why Jesus Called Them an Adulterous Generation. The Law as Husband.
And He called them, indeed, "an evil generation," because of the quality arising from evil which had been produced in them, for wickedness is voluntary evil-doing, but "adulterous" because that when the Pharisees and Sadducees left that which is figuratively called man, the word of truth or the law, they were debauched by falsehood and the law of sin. For if there are two laws, the law in our members warring against the law of the mind, and the law of the mind, [5572] we must say that the law of the mind--that is, the spiritual--is man, to whom the soul was given by God as wife, that is, to the man who is law, according to what is written, "A wife is married to a man by God;" [5573] but the other is a paramour of the soul which is subject to it, which also on account of it is called an adulteress. Now that the law is husband of the soul Paul clearly exhibits in the Epistle to the Romans, saying, "The law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth; for the woman that hath a husband is bound to the husband while he liveth, to the husband who is law," [5574] etc. For consider in these things that the law hath dominion over the man so long time as the law liveth,--as a husband over a wife. "For the woman that hath a husband," that is, the soul under the law, "is bound to the husband while he liveth," to the husband who is the law; but if the husband--that is, the law die--she is discharged from the law, which is her husband. Now the law dies to him who has gone up to the condition of blessedness, and no longer lives under the law, but acts like to Christ, who, though He became under law for the sake of those under law, that He might gain those under law, [5575] did not continue under law, nor did He leave subject to law those who had been freed by Him; for He led them up along with Himself to the divine citizenship which is above the law, which contains, as for the imperfect and such as are still sinners, sacrifices for the remission of sins.
[5572] Rom. vii. 23.
[5573] Prov. xix. 14.
[5574] Rom. vii. 1, 2. ;;E gar hupandros gune to zonti andri dedetai nomo. The reader must note that Origen takes nomo in apposition to andri.
[5575] 1 Cor. ix. 10.
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