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Homilies on Genesis, Homilia VII · §1

Isaac and the wells of Abraham

Isaac digs again his father’s wells that the Philistines had stopped. Living water — the Word enemies choke with earth.

Latin

Isaac fodit iterum puteos patris quos Philisthim obturaverant. Aqua viva — Verbum quod inimici terra obstruunt.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia VII 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 VII. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VII §§1–5 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia VII §§1–5)

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