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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia VII · §6

Creatures in the waters

In the waters, what has fins and scales is clean. Scales are virtues; fins move upward. Without them you sink.

Latin

In aquis quae pinnulas et squamas habent munda. Squamae virtutum; pinnae — motus ad superiora. Sine his demersi.

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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