Fathers

Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XXII · §2

Inheritance for daughters

The Lord orders them possession among their father’s brothers. Inheritance law widens in mercy.

Latin

Dominus iubet dari eis possessionem inter fratres patris. Lex hereditatis expanditur misericordia.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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