The stronger bear the weak’s sins
On the word You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear the sins of the sanctuary: the better always take up the faults of those below. The Apostle says, You who are stronger, bear the weaknesses of the weak. A lay Israelite who sins needs Levite, priest, even high priest; a priest who fails can cleanse his own — unless he sins against God.
Latin
De eo quod scriptum est: tu et filii tui et domus patris tui tecum sumetis peccata sanctuarii. Qui meliores sunt, inferiorum semper culpas suscipiunt. Apostolus: vos qui firmiores estis imbecillitates infirmorum sustinete. Israelita laicus peccans requirit levitatem sacerdotem pontificem; sacerdos si delinquat, suum potest purgare nisi peccet in Deum.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia X on Numbers (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–2.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia X. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia X §§1–2 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia X §§1–2)
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