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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia XIV · §3

Wrestling until daybreak

A man wrestles with him until morning. He touches the thigh sinew — a holy limp. The name Israel: seeing God.

Latin

Luctatur vir cum eo usque mane. Tetigit nervum femoris — claudicatio sancta. Nomen Israel: videns Deum.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XIV on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–4.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XIV. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XIV §§1–4 (closeout).

Witnesses

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

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