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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia IV · §6

Moses sent back into Egypt

Moses is sent back into Egypt to work the wonders God put in his hand. So too, if we have left Egypt in mind, we return in word to brothers still enslaved — not to make Egypt pleasant, but to call a people out.

Latin

Moyses ad Aegyptum mittitur prodigia facturus. Et ego, si exii mente, redeo ad fratres adhuc servientes, verbum liberationis portans — non ut Aegyptus placeat, sed ut populus exeat.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia IV on Exodus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–8.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia IV. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IV §§1–8 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia IV §§1–8)

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