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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia IX · §2

Offerings according to ability

The people are told to offer according to ability: gold, silver, bronze, linen, skins. Diverse materials are diverse virtues of souls.

Latin

Iubetur populus offerre pro viribus: aurum, argentum, aes, byssum, pelles. Diversae materiae — diversae virtutes animarum.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia IX 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 IX. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IX §§1–4 (closeout).

Witnesses

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

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.