Fathers

Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia XII · §4

Virgin of his people as wife

He shall take a virgin wife from his people. The church is a chaste virgin for Christ — not heresy’s widow.

Latin

Uxorem virginem de populo suo accipiat. Ecclesia virgo casta Christo. Non vidua haeresum.

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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