Fathers

Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XVII · §3

How fair are your tents, O Jacob

How fair are your tents, O Jacob — a mystery of the ordered church. Glory forever. Amen.

Latin

Quam pulchra tabernacula tua Iacob. Mysterium ecclesiae ordinatae; gloria in saecula. Amen.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XVII 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 XVII. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XVII §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

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

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