From Egypt to baptism’s Jordan
You who leave idolatry’s darkness to hear the divine law are leaving Egypt. Enrolled among the catechumens you have crossed the Red Sea and in the desert stations daily attend Moses’ face unveiled by the Lord’s glory. When you come to baptism’s mystic font with priestly and Levitical order standing by, and pass the Jordan, you will enter the land of promise, where after Moses Jesus becomes guide of a new road. Mindful of God’s mighty acts you will say: What ails you, O sea, that you fled? And you, O Jordan, that you turned back?. The word answers: At the Lord’s presence the earth trembled.
Latin
Qui idolatriae tenebris derelictis ad audientiam legis accedis, Aegyptum derelinquis. Catechumenis aggregatus mare rubrum digressus es et in deserto Moysi vultum revelatum cotidianis vacas. Si ad mysticum baptismi fontem veneris sacerdote et Levitico ordine consistente, Iordane digresso terram repromissionis intrabis, ubi post Moysen Iesus novi itineris dux. Memor virtutum Dei dices: Quid tibi est mare quod fugisti? et tu Iordanis quia conversus es retrorsum? Respondebit: A facie Domini commota est terra.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia IV 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 IV. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IV §§1–3 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia IV §§1–3)
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