Male and female; increase and multiply
Male and female he made them, and God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply and fill the earth. The blessing of fruitfulness is given to those made in the image, so that God’s image may grow on the earth through generation and through the multiplying of the virtues in the soul.
Latin
Masculum et feminam fecit eos, et benedixit eos Deus, dicens: crescite et multiplicamini et replete terram. Benedictio fecunditatis ad imaginem factis datur, ut imago Dei crescat in terris per generationem et per virtutum multiplicationem in anima.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia I on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–17.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia I. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia I §§1–17 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia I §§1–17)
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