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Homilies on Judges, Homilia V · §3

Jael and the tent peg

Sisera flees to Jael the foreigner; a peg through the temple. The church from the nations lays the enemy low. Glory. Amen.

Latin

Sisara fugiens ad Iahel alienigenam; clavum in tempus. Ecclesia ex gentibus hostem prosternit. Gloria. Amen.

About this text

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

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

Witnesses

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

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