White as snow — whole body leprous
If leprosy covers the whole body and turns white, he is clean. Full confession makes bright. Who hides a part stays unclean.
Latin
Si lepra totum corpus operuerit et alba fuerit, mundus est. Totalis confessio candidum facit. Qui partem tegit, manet immundus.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia VIII on Leviticus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–11.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia VIII. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia VIII §§1–11 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia VIII §§1–11)
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