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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia XII · §2

The veil on Moses’ face

He put a veil over his face; entering to the Lord he removed it. The veil is the letter covering glory; in Christ it is taken away.

Latin

Ponebat velamen super faciem. Cum intraret ad Dominum, deponebat. Velamen — littera tegens gloriam; in Christo aufertur.

About this text

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

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XII. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XII §§1–4 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia XII §§1–4)

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