Fathers

Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XX · §1

Fornication with Midian and zeal of Phinehas

The reading covers Israel’s fornication with Midian and Phinehas’s zeal. The Lord’s wrath is turned; an everlasting priesthood is promised.

Latin

Lectio de fornicatione Israelitae cum Madianitide et zelo Phinees. Ira Domini placatur; sacerdotium aeternum promittitur.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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