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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia V · §4

Blood sprinkled on a garment

If blood is sprinkled on a garment, wash it in a holy place. The stain is washed with prayer and tears.

Latin

Si aspersum fuerit sanguis super vestimentum, lavabis in loco sancto. Macula oratione et lacrimis lavatur.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia V on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–12.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia V. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia V §§1–12 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia V §§1–12)

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