Divide the waters — living water vs the abyss
Let each of you strive to become a divider of the water above and the water beneath, so that, taking a share of spiritual water, you may bring rivers of living water from your belly, cut off from the water of the abyss where darkness and the prince of this world dwell. By sharing that upper water the believer is made heavenly, thinking nothing of earth but all of the things above.
Latin
Studeat unusquisque divisor effici aquae quae supra et quae subtus est, ut spiritalis aquae participium capiens flumina de ventre suo educat aquae vivae, segregatus ab aqua abyssi in qua tenebrae et princeps huius mundi habitant. Illius aquae supernae participio fidelis caelestis efficitur, nihil de terra sed totum de caelestibus cogitans.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia I on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–17.
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 §§1–17 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia I §§1–17)
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