Circumcision healed before Passover
On the Passover at Gilgal, the fruits of the palm country, and the prince of the Lord’s host. The disobedient to the Lord’s commands are called uncircumcised. God sent Jesus who truly circumcises flesh’s pollution and the heart’s sins — not only Nun’s son. The circumcised rested in camp until they were healed; then the Lord said: Today I have rolled away Egypt’s reproach. It is not enough to be circumcised; we must heal until the scar closes — when new habits become easy nature. Then Israel kept Passover; no unclean person keeps it. Christ our Passover has been sacrificed; let us keep the feast in unleavened sincerity and truth.
Latin
De Pascha in Galgala et fructibus regionis palmarum et principe militiae Domini. Qui inoboedientes mandatis Domini, incircumcisi dicuntur. Misit Deus Iesum qui vere pollutionem carnis et peccata cordis circumcidat — non solum Iesum Nave. Circumcisi requieverunt in castris usque dum sanarentur; tunc: Hodierna die abstuli opprobrium Aegypti. Non sufficit circumcidí sed et sanari cicatrice obducta — cum nova instituta absque difficultate complemus. Tunc fecerunt pascha; nemo immundus facit pascha. Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus; in azymis sinceritatis celebremus.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia VI 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 VI. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VI §§1–4 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia VI §§1–4)
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