Fathers

Homilies on Joshua, Homilia XIX · §1

Cities of refuge

Appoint cities of refuge for the one who kills without intent. Christ is the soul’s refuge; the road runs until the high priest’s death — until Christ’s passion.

Latin

Constituite urbes fugitivorum — innocens qui non volens occidit. Christus refugium animae; via usque ad sacerdotis mortem — usque ad Christi passionem.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XIX on Joshua (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–3.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XIX. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XIX §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia XIX §§1–3)

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