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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia VII · §3

Twelve springs and seventy palms

They came to Elim: twelve springs and seventy palm trees. The springs figure the apostles; the palms the seventy. After bitterness, the church’s refreshment.

Latin

Venerunt in Elim: duodecim fontes, septuaginta palmae. Apostoli fontes; septuaginta discipuli. Post amaritudinem refrigerium ecclesiae.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia VII 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 VII. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VII §§1–8 (closeout).

Witnesses

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

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