Desert and Antilibanus
As I said to Moses: the desert and this Antilibanus as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. God subjected the desert to Jesus — the deserts of which the prophet says: Rejoice, O thirsting desert and More are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband. He did not say Lebanon but Antilibanus — “over-against Lebanon.” If you see that former people according to the flesh, Israel, who was the true olive, understand him as the true Lebanon; but when for unbelief the kingdom is taken from him and given to a nation producing its fruit, perceive that incoming people as Antilibanus — the church of the living God gathered from the nations through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be glory and dominion forever. Amen.
Latin
Sicut dixi Moysi, eremum et Antilibanum usque ad flumen magnum Euphraten. Eremum Deus subiecit Iesu — deserta de quibus: Laetare eremus sitiens, et: Multi filii desertae magis quam eius quae habet virum. Non dixit Libanum sed Antilibanum. Si videas priorem populum secundum carnem Israel qui erat vera oliva, ipsum intellige Libanum verum; sed cum pro incredulitate auferatur ab eo regnum et detur genti facienti fructum, istum populum Antilibanum senti — ecclesia Dei vivi ex gentibus congregata per Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum, cui est gloria et imperium in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia II on Joshua (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–4.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia II. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia II §§1–4 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia II §§1–4)
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