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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia V · §5

Earthen vessel broken; bronze scoured

An earthen vessel is broken; bronze is scoured. Flesh is fragile; chastening is strong. Become vessels for honor.

Latin

Vas fictile confringetur; aeneum defricabitur. Fragilitas carnis; fortitudo castigationis. Vasa in honorem.

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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