Origen, COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW Complete

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In a general way, then, the law in the members which wars against the law of the mind, [5580] as a man who is an adulterer, is an adulterer of the soul. But now also every power that is hostile, which gains the mastery over the human soul, and has intercourse with it, commits adultery with her who had a bridegroom given to her by God, namely, the Word. After these things it is written that "He left them and departed." For how was the bridegroom--the Word--not going to leave the adulterous generation and depart from it? But you might say that the Word of God, leaving the synagogue of the Jews as adulterous, departed from it, and took a wife of fornication, [5581] namely, those from the Gentiles; since those who were "Sion, a faithful city," [5582] have become harlots; but these have become like the harlot Rahab, who received the spies of Joshua, and was saved with all her house; [5583] after this no longer playing the harlot, but coming to the feet of Jesus, and wetting them with the tears of repentance, and anointing them with the fragrance of the ointment of holy conversation, on account of whom, reproaching Simon the leper,--the former people,--He spoke those things which are written. [5584]

[5580] Rom. vii. 23.

[5581] Hos. i. 2.

[5582] Isa. i. 21.

[5583] Josh. vi. 25.

[5584] Luke vii. 37-50. Cf. Matt. xxvi. 6.

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