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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia VIII · §4

Do not bow down to them

You shall not bow down to them nor worship them. Fashioning is one thing; worship another. Even without a statue the mind can serve idols.

Latin

Non adorabis ea neque coles. Aliud fabricare, aliud adorare. Etiam sine sculptili mens potest idolis servire.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia VIII on Exodus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–6.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia VIII. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VIII §§1–6 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia VIII §§1–6)

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