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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia IV · §3

Robbery and oppression

Or he seizes by force or oppresses with a false claim. Robbery and fraud defile one altar. Turn, you who oppress.

Latin

Aut vi rapuerit aut calumniam fecerit. Rapina et fraus unum altare polluunt. Convertimini qui opprimitis.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia IV on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–10.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia IV. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IV §§1–10 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia IV §§1–10)

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