The second numbering of the people
On the second numbering of the people: earlier reading cut us short; we now make it good. By the Lord’s command the people were first numbered.
Latin
De eo quod secundo populus numeratus est. Priore lectione exclusi sumus; nunc reddimus. Praecepto Domini primo numeratus est populus.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia XXI 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 XXI. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XXI §§1–3 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia XXI §§1–3)
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