The battle after baptism is within
Crossing the Jordan we pass over into battles. What wars meet us after baptism? Learn from Paul: Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, the world-rulers of this darkness, the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenlies. These things happened to them as types and were written for us. Let us go out to war until the world’s first malice is stormed and sin’s proud walls fall. Look for no field outside yourself: the fight is within; from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries. These must fall in the first clash; if we cut them down so none remains to breathe, Jesus will give that rest where each sits under his vine and fig tree.
Latin
Transeuntes Iordanen ad pugnas transimus. Quae bella post baptismum? Paulus: Non adversus carnem et sanguinem sed adversus principatus potestates rectores tenebrarum spiritalia nequitiae. Haec in figura contingebant illis, scripta propter nos. Exeamus ad bellum ut prima mundi malitia expugnetur. Intra te proelium; de corde procedunt cogitationes malae. Isti prima acie prosternendi; si ad internecionem caesi, dabitur requies sub vite et ficu.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia V 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 V. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia V §§1–4 (closeout).
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- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia V §§1–4)
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