Fathers

Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia V · §3

Whoever touches the flesh is holy

Whoever touches its flesh shall be holy. Christ’s touch sanctifies; sin’s touch defiles.

Latin

Omnis qui tetigerit carnes eius sanctificabitur. Contactus Christi sanctificat; contactus peccati polluit.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia V on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–12.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia V. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia V §§1–12 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia V §§1–12)

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