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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XXI · §2

The first census fell by sin

Those first enrolled fell through persistence in sin. The former count is voided by faults.

Latin

Qui primo adsciiti sunt ceciderunt propter perseverantiam delictorum. Numerus prior peccatis cassatur.

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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