Fathers

Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia IX · §6

Do not take the lot as blind chance

The lot is not blind fortune but God’s providence. Apostolic lots. The Lord arranges our steps.

Latin

Sors non fortuna caeca; providentia Dei. Sortes apostolicae. Dominus disponit.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia IX on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–11.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia IX. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IX §§1–11 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia IX §§1–11)

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