Flax, the world’s prince, and the sun standing still
I do not take without mystery the flax stalks in which the spies hid — flax is priestly clothing; you are a holy nation, a royal priesthood. The harlot enters enmity with Jericho’s king — flesh lusts against the spirit; the world hates you. That hostile king is the prince of this world; he cannot seize Jesus’ spies because they travel the mountains: I lift my eyes to the hills; whence comes my help?. Moses never said Let the sun stand; Jesus did — Sun, stand over Gibeon, and moon over the valley of Aijalon — and Scripture adds that God never so listened to a man. My Jesus still makes the sun stand in his coming: while we wrestle against principalities and powers, the sun of righteousness stays with us — Behold, I am with you all days until the end of the age.
Latin
Nec lini stipulam in qua exploratores delitescebant absque sacramentis accipio — linum indumentum sacerdotale; vos gens sancta, regnum sacerdotale. Meretrix inimicitias subit adversus Hierichontium regem — caro adversus spiritum. Rex inimicus — princeps huius mundi — non potest obtinere exploratores quia per montes iter faciunt. Moyses non dixit Stet sol; Iesus: Stet sol super Gabaon et luna super vallem Aelom. Iesus meus solem stare fecit modo in adventu: dum bellum gerimus adversus principatus, sol iustitiae adsistit — Ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus diebus usque ad consummationem saeculi.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia I on Joshua (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–7.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia I. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia I §§1–7 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia I §§1–7)
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