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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia VI · §3

Pharaoh’s chariots sunk like lead

Pharaoh’s chariots and army he cast into the sea; his chosen captains sank in the Red Sea. The deeps covered them; they went down like lead in mighty waters. When the people pass through, unseen enemies sink.

Latin

Quadrigas Pharaonis et exercitum proiecit in mare; electi principes demersi sunt in rubro mari. Abyssi operuerunt eos; descenderunt in profundum sicut plumbum. Hostes invisibiles merguntur cum populus transit.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia VI on Exodus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–14.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia VI. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VI §§1–14 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia VI §§1–14)

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