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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia IV · §7

Bring a ram for the trespass

He brings a spotless ram to the priest. Christ is that ram; he carries our trespass. The priest values it.

Latin

Offeret arietem immaculatum sacerdoti. Christus aries; delictum nostrum portat. Sacerdos aestimat.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia IV on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–10.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia IV. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IV §§1–10 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia IV §§1–10)

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