Fathers

Homilies on Joshua, Homilia XIX · §2

Three west and three east

Three west of Jordan, three east — refuge everywhere. The church opens asylums in every land.

Latin

Tres citra Iordanen, tres ultra — ubique refugium. Ecclesia in omni terra asyla aperit.

About this text

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

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XIX. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XIX §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia XIX §§1–3)

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