Offer your own proud flesh — Homilia I CLOSEOUT
Turn the figure to morals: you too have a calf — proud flesh. If you would offer it to the Lord, bring it to the door of the tent — to the hearing of the divine books. Let the gift be male; lay on your hand and slaughter it before the Lord — the bridle of continence, as Paul: I pommel my body and subdue it. Aaron’s sons in you — mind and sense — present the blood. Offer a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God; your rational worship. Homilia I CLOSEOUT. Amen.
Latin
Ad moralem locum: habes et tu vitulum — carnem superbum. Si munus Domino offerre vis, adduc ad ostium tabernaculi — auditum divinorum librorum. Masculinum sit munus; impone manum et iugula contra Dominum — continentiae frenum, macero corpus meum. Filii Aaron in te — mens et sensus — offerant sanguinem. Hostiam vivam, sanctam, placentem Deo. Completur Homilia I. Amen.
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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