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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XX · §2

Census voided by sin

The former census is voided by sin. Faults so prevail that it does not even help to have been counted among the number.

Latin

Numerus prior propter peccata cassatur. Tantum valent delicta ut ne hoc quidem prosit quod in numero quis habitus sit.

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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