Priestly trumpets overthrow Jericho
Jericho falls to the priests’ trumpets. At their blast the walls collapsed — the power of God’s word. Priests sound; the ark goes before. Six days of circling, on the seventh a shout — sabbath mystery and the end’s figure. The harlot and her house are saved by the scarlet sign.
Latin
Hiericho tubis sacerdotum subruitur. Ad tubarum sonitum muri corruerunt — virtus verbi Dei. Sacerdotes tubis canunt; arca praecedit. Sex diebus circuitus, die septimo clamor — sabbati mysterium et consummationis. Meretrix et domus eius salvantur signo coccineo.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia VII 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 VII. Bruce FOTC 105 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VII §§1–4 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia VII §§1–4)
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