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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia IX · §2

Rebecca at the well; watering the camels

Rebecca comes out, draws water, and waters the camels too. The prayer’s sign is fulfilled. Earrings and bracelets — ornaments of an obedient soul.

Latin

Rebecca egreditur, haurit, camelos etiam potat. Signum orationis impletur. Inaures et armillae — ornamenta animae obedientis.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia IX on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–3.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia IX. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IX §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia IX §§1–3)

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