Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia X

Origen of Alexandria · c. 240–245 · Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) · Original English Translation

Contents3 passages

1We of the church receive Moses
2Afflict your souls on the day of atonement
3The goat sent into the wilderness — Homilia X CLOSEOUT

About this text

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

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia X. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia X §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia X §§1–3)

English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.

We of the church receive Moses§1

1We of the church receive Moses as prophet writing futures in figures. The letter-only reader denies the prophet.

Latin · §1

Qui de ecclesia sumus Moysen recipimus ut prophetam figuris futura scribentem. Iudaeus litterae prophetam negat.

Afflict your souls on the day of atonement§2

2 Afflict your souls; it is a sabbath of sabbaths. Fast from vices. The day of propitiation.

Latin · §2

Affligetis animas vestras; sabbatum sabbatorum. Ieiunium a vitiis. Dies propitiationis.

The goat sent into the wilderness — Homilia X CLOSEOUT§3

3The goat into the wilderness carries iniquities. Christ bore our sins in his body. Homilia X CLOSEOUT. Amen.

Latin · §3

Hircus in eremum portat iniquitates. Christus tulit peccata in corpus suum. Amen.

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