Fathers

Homilies on Judges, Homilia II · §3

They served the Baals

They served the Baals and forsook the Lord God of their fathers. A remnant according to the election of grace is saved. Baal is desire’s idol.

Latin

Servivit Baalim et dereliquerunt Dominum Deum patrum. Reliquiae secundum electionem gratiae salvae. Baal — idolum cupiditatis.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia II on Judges (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–4.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia II. Modern FOTC 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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