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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia XVI · §3

Peace in the land; chase five hundred

Peace in the land; five shall chase a hundred. Christ’s peace; a few strong turn enemy backs.

Latin

Pax in terra; quinque centum persequentur. Pax Christi; pauci fortes terga hostium.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XVI 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 XVI. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XVI §§1–7 (closeout).

Witnesses

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

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