Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XXIV · §1

Festival sacrifices as rudiments

On sacrifices ordered for each feast: rudiments feel heavy while the end of the discipline is unknown.

Latin

De sacrificiis quae per unamquamque festivitatem iubentur. Rudimenta molesta sunt donec finis disciplinae ignoretur.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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