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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XXVII · §3

Forty-two stages as mystery

The forty-two stations hold a mystery — the ordered journey toward the holy land.

Latin

Quadraginta duae mansiones mysterium continent; ordo itineris ad terram sanctam.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XXVII on Numbers (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–4.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XXVII. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XXVII §§1–4 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia XXVII §§1–4)

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