Fathers

Homilies on Joshua, Homilia XX · §2

Forty-eight cities

Forty-eight cities for the Levites — scattered so teaching is everywhere. Salt of the earth in every tribe.

Latin

Quadraginta octo civitates Levitis — dispersae in Israel ut doctrina ubique. Sal terrae in omnibus tribubus.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XX on Joshua (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–4.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XX. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XX §§1–4 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia XX §§1–4)

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