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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia III · §5

Eighth day and aged faith

The eighth day is a mystery of resurrection and of the age to come. Grace forestalls the infant. Abraham at a hundred: faith makes aging nature live.

Latin

Octava dies mysterium resurrectionis et futuri saeculi. Infans praevenitur gratia. Abraham centenarius: fides naturam senescentem vivificat.

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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