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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XIII · §3

Balak sends for Balaam

Balak sends for Balaam to curse Israel. So begins Balaam’s story — a mixed prophecy, now blameworthy, now praiseworthy.

Latin

Balac mittit ad Balaam ut maledicat Israel. Initium historiae Balaam: prophetia mixta, nunc vituperabilis nunc laudabilis.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XIII on Numbers (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–3.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XIII. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XIII §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia XIII §§1–3)

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