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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia II · §1

Ark measures, decks, and clean and unclean

Concerning Noah’s ark: length three hundred cubits, width fifty, height thirty; at the top it is narrowed to a cubit. Three decks. Of the clean, sevens; of the unclean, pairs. Gather foods. Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. The narrow peak suits the rains; the square base stands steady in the waves.

Latin

De arca Noe. Longitudo trecentorum cubitorum, latitudo quinquaginta, altitudo triginta; in summitate in cubitum coartatur. Tria tabulata. De mundis septena, de immundis bina. Escas congrega. Fecit Noe omnia quae praecepit Dominus. Culmen angustum pluviis aptum; ima quadrata fluctibus stabilia.

About this text

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

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

Witnesses

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

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