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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia VII · §5

Morning by morning

They gathered morning by morning. Latecomers find nothing. The sun of righteousness rises; laziness stays barren.

Latin

Colligebant mane mane. Qui tarde venit nihil invenit. Sol iustitiae oritur; pigritia sterilis manet.

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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