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Headword:
Κακία
Adler number: kappa,151
Translated headword: vice
Vetting Status: low
Translation: The word has a double meaning. [One is] the real vice, such as prostitution, seduction, greediness and perjury, slander. But hunger and pestilence, deaths and diseases etc. are not evils, because they often become a cause of good things for us.[1] And concerning vice the prophet says: "there is not a vice in the city which the Lord has not produced."[2]
Greek Original:Κακία: διώνυμός ἐστιν ἡ λέξις. ἡ ὄντως κακία, οἷον πορνεία, μοιχεία, πλεονεξία καὶ ἐπιορκία, καταλαλιά. λιμὸς δὲ καὶ λοιμός, θάνατοι καὶ νόσοι καὶ τἆλλα, οὐκ ἔστι κακά, διότι πολλάκις ἡμῖν ἀγαθῶν αἴτια γίνεται. καὶ περὶ ταύτης φησὶν ὁ προφήτης: οὐκ ἔστι κακία ἐν πόλει, ἣν κύριος οὐκ ἐποίησεν.
Notes:
cf. generally
kappa 150.
[1] cf. John Chrystostom, PG 49, 251e.
[2] Amos 3:6.
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 16 June 2000@15:47:56.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes; cosmetics) on 20 September 2002@08:46:12.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 10 October 2005@09:02:56.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 8 March 2008@01:04:02.
David Whitehead (tweaks to tr; more keywords; cosmetics) on 10 March 2008@10:29:55.
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