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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia XVI · §2

Walk in my precepts — rain in season

If you walk in my precepts, I will give rains in season. Teaching’s rain. The heart’s earth sprouts.

Latin

Si in praeceptis meis ambulaveritis, dabo pluvias. Pluvia doctrinae. Terra cordis germinat.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XVI on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–7.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia XVI. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XVI §§1–7 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia XVI §§1–7)

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