Fathers

Homilies on Genesis, Homilia XII · §4

How fearful is this place

Awake: Truly the Lord is in this place. This is none other than the house of God and the gate of heaven.

Latin

Expergefactus: vere Dominus est in loco isto. Non est hic aliud nisi domus Dei et porta caeli.

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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