Fathers

Homilies on Exodus, Homilia VII · §7

What is it? — the name of the gift

Manhu — “What is this?”. Ignorance named the gift. Even now many see the bread of life and still ask.

Latin

Manhu — quid est hoc? Ignorantia nomen fecit. Etiam nunc multi panem vitae vident et interrogant.

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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