Partners in Christ’s death become doves by the Spirit
Those who receive Christ’s death become partners in the likeness of his death; those who receive the Spirit’s power, because he himself appeared in the form of a dove, themselves become doves, lifted by the Spirit’s wings toward the heavenly.
Latin
Qui mortem Christi recipiunt, consortes mortis eius fiunt; qui virtutem Spiritus recipiunt, quia ipse in specie columbae apparuit, etiam ipsi columbae fiunt, pennis Spiritus ad caelestia sublevati.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber IV (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber IV. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber IV §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber IV §§1–20)
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