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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia XV · §5

Cast into the pit

Stripped of the tunic, cast into an empty cistern. Descent of the soul — or of Christ — to the lower parts.

Latin

Expoliatus tunica, missus in cisternam vacuam. Descensus animae vel Christi ad inferiora.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XV on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–7.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XV. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XV §§1–7 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia XV §§1–7)

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