Fathers

Homilies on Genesis, Homilia IV · §5

Escape to the mountain; do not look back

Save your soul; do not look back. The wife becomes a pillar of salt — love of what is past. Zoar is small — modest progress still saves.

Latin

Salvare animam tuam; noli respicere. Uxor in statuam salis — amor praeteritorum. Segor parva — modicus profectus salvus.

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)

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