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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia XIII · §1

Jacob at the well of the East

Jacob comes to the well of the East; three flocks lie there. The great stone — Christ, to be rolled from the law’s well so the sheep may drink.

Latin

Venit Iacob ad puteum Orientis; tres greges iacent. Lapis magnus — Christus super puteum legis removendus ut oves bibant.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XIII on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–4.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XIII. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XIII §§1–4 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia XIII §§1–4)

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