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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia VIII · §3

Do not make a graven image

You shall not make for yourself a graven image. The invisible God is not to be fashioned in matter. The true image is Christ; be conformed to his image.

Latin

Non facies tibi sculptile. Deus invisibilis non in materia fingendus. Imago vera — Christus; conformamini imagini eius.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia VIII on Exodus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–6.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia VIII. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VIII §§1–6 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia VIII §§1–6)

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