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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia IX · §2

Nothing useless with God

What humans would cast off still has necessary work with God. Even sins are turned into warning, so that memory of the fault may guard the holy things.

Latin

Quae hominibus alienanda videntur, aliquid operis necessarii apud Deum habent. Peccata etiam in documentum convertuntur, ut memoria culpae custodiat sancta.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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