Fathers

Homilies on Genesis, Homilia VIII · §3

Servants left; father and son go on

Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go yonder. Servitude and reason: the donkey stays; the mind ascends.

Latin

Remanete hic cum asino; ego et puer illuc. Servitus et ratio: asinus remanet, mens ascendit.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia VIII on Genesis (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–8.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia VIII. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VIII §§1–8 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia VIII §§1–8)

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