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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia XII · §3

The land and the seed promised

The land on which you sleep I will give to you and to your seed. Abraham’s blessing passes to fleeing Jacob.

Latin

Terram in qua dormis dabo tibi et semini. Benedictio Abrahae transit in Iacob fugientem.

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)

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.