Fathers

Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia VII · §3

To separate holy and common

That they may distinguish holy and common, clean and unclean. That is teaching’s office. Do not judge by surfaces.

Latin

Ut discernant inter sanctum et profanum, mundum et immundum. Doctrinae officium. Nolite iudicare superficiem.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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