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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia IV · §2

Divine letters demand spiritual reading

If we believe these letters divine, they are written for our training, not as antique gossip. Hardening does not make God the author of evil; it discloses judgment. The same sun softens wax and hardens mud: one working, different effects according to the matter that receives it.

Latin

Si divinas litteras credimus, non ut fabulae sed ut disciplinae scriptae sunt. Induratio Pharaonis non Deum auctorem mali facit, sed iudicium revelat. Sol iustos illuminat, lutum indurat — eadem operatio diversos effectus.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia IV on Exodus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–8.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia IV. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IV §§1–8 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia IV §§1–8)

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.