The book paints Christ’s sacraments
Where does all this look? This book does not so much report the deeds of Nun’s son as depict the sacraments of my Lord Jesus. He it is who, after Moses’ death, took the command; he leads the army and fights Amalek; what was foreshadowed on the mountain with outstretched hands he nails to his cross, triumphing over principalities and powers. Moses died — for the law ceased, since the law and the prophets were until John. Hear the Gospel: They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them — naming Moses as the law. Hear the Apostle: a woman is bound to the law while her husband lives; if the husband dies she is free — the woman being the soul held under Moses’ law. Therefore the law must die, so that those who believe in Jesus may not incur the charge of adultery.
Latin
Liber hic non tam gesta filii Nave indicet quam Iesu mei Domini sacramenta depingat. Ipse post mortem Moysi suscepit imperium, ducit exercitum et confligit adversus Amalec; quod in monte manibus extensis adumbrabatur, affigit cruci suae triumphans principatus. Defunctus est Moyses — cessavit lex, quoniam lex et prophetae usque ad Iohannem. Habent Moysen et prophetas — Moysen legem nominans. Mulier vivente viro alligata est legi; si mortuus fuerit vir, soluta est — mulierem animam nominans. Necesse est legem mori, ut qui credunt in Iesu nequaquam adulterii crimen incurrant.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia I on Joshua (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–7.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia I. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia I §§1–7 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia I §§1–7)
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