Fathers

Homilies on Genesis, Homilia II · §5

Go out of the ark — grades in one church

Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives, and all the animals. Diversity in the church: some already gentle, some still wild and to be tamed by faith. One baptism, yet not one and the same progress — each in his own order.

Latin

Exite de arca, tu et uxor et filii et uxores filiorum, et omnia animalia. Diversitas in ecclesia: alii mansueti, alii feri fide mansuescendi. Unum baptisma, non unus profectus — unusquisque in suo ordine.

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)

English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.