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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia VI · §3

The ephod and breastpiece of judgment

Ephod and breastpiece of judgment: the people’s burdens on the shoulders, their names on the heart. The high priest keeps the church in mind.

Latin

Superhumerale et rationale iudicii — onera populi in umeris, nomina in corde. Pontifex memor ecclesiae.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia VI on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–6.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia VI. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VI §§1–6 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia VI §§1–6)

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