Fathers

Homilies on Genesis, Homilia IV · §4

Lot receives the angels in Sodom

Two angels come to Sodom; Lot sits in the gate and receives them. The city’s men surround the house. Lot’s offer of his daughters is the law’s shadow; the angels snatch him out.

Latin

Duo angeli Sodomae; Lot in porta sedet, hospitio recipit. Circumdant viri civitatis domum. Lot offert filias — umbra legis; angeli eripiunt.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia IV 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 IV. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IV §§1–6 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia IV §§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.