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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia I · §1

Scripture as seed that grows into a tree

Every word of divine Scripture seems to me like seed. Cast into the earth it is born again and multiplies. This word, if it finds a skilled farmer, grows into a tree — like a mustard seed. By your prayers may the word of God be present.

Latin

Videtur mihi unusquisque sermo Scripturae divinae similis esse seminum. Iactum in terram regeneratur et multiplicatur. Sermo hic, si peritum colonum inveniat, crescit in arborem sicut granum sinapis. Precibus adsit sermo Dei.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia I on Exodus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–5.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia I. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia I §§1–5 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia I §§1–5)

English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.