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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia XII · §1

Every earthly priest is small beside Melchizedek’s order

Every human priest is small beside You are a priest forever after Melchizedek’s order. The great priest is Christ.

Latin

Omnis sacerdos inter homines parvus ad illum: Tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech. Magnus sacerdos Christus.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XII on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–7.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XII. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XII §§1–7 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia XII §§1–7)

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