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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia XII · §2

Stone pillow; dream of the ladder

He takes a stone for his head; he dreams a ladder from earth to heaven, angels ascending and descending, the Lord leaning upon it.

Latin

Accipit lapidem capiti; somniat scalam a terra in caelum, angelos ascendentes et descendentes, Dominum innixum.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XII on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–5.

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 §§1–5 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia XII §§1–5)

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