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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia XI · §1

Famine; Isaac goes down toward Egypt but stays in Gerar

Famine in the land; Isaac goes to Abimelech at Gerar. The Lord: Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land I name.

Latin

Fames in terra; Isaac ad Abimelech Geraris. Dominus: noli descendere in Aegyptum — mane in terra quam dixero.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XI on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–3.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XI. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XI §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia XI §§1–3)

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