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Homilies on Joshua, Homilia VIII · §3

King of Ai on the twin wood

The king of Ai is hanged on a twin wood — a cross figure. The enemy prince is triumphed over on the tree; Christ disarms principalities on the cross. At evening the hanged form is taken down — the time of the economy.

Latin

Rex Gai in ligno gemino suspenditur — figura crucis. Hostium princeps triumphatur in ligno; Christus principatus exspolians in cruce. Forma regis suspensi advesperum deponitur — dispensationis tempus.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia VIII 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 VIII. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VIII §§1–4 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia VIII §§1–4)

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