The Lord called Moses — beginning of Leviticus
Leviticus opens: the Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting. God’s call leads into secrets. He is not summoned to sacrifice still in Egypt, but in the wilderness, at the tent of testimony. Whoever remains in Egypt’s vices cannot yet offer spiritual victims. Called Moses receives the law of offerings — not so the church may immolate Christ with bloody cattle, but so she may understand the rational burnt offering.
Latin
Principium Levitici: vocavit Dominus Moysen et locutus est ei de tabernaculo. Vocatio Dei ad secreta ducit. Non in Aegypto vocatur ad sacrificia, sed in deserto, in tabernaculo testimonii. Qui adhuc in Aegypto vitiorum est, hostias spiritales offerre non potest. Vocatus Moyses legem sacrificiorum accipit — non ut cruentis victimis Christum ecclesia immolet, sed ut intelligat holocaustum rationabile.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia I on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–5.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia I. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia I §§1–5 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia I §§1–5)
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