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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia III · §1

God speaks without bodily members

God speaks to humans in the Scriptures. Some invent a bodily God; philosophers mock it as fable. We confess God bodiless and invisible, and yet that he cares for mortal things, and that nothing is done apart from his providence.

Latin

Deus loquitur ad homines in Scripturis. Aliqui Deum corporeum fingunt; philosophi fabulosa rident. Nos Deum incorporeum invisibilem confitemur, et tamen curare mortalia, nihil sine providentia geri.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia III on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–7.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia III. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia III §§1–7 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia III §§1–7)

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