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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia IX · §4

The prepared and clean man who leads the goat

A prepared, clean man leads the goat into the desert. Apostolic ministry. Cleanness fits the mystery.

Latin

Homo paratus et mundus ducit hircum in desertum. Apostolorum ministerium. Munditia ad mysterium.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia IX 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 IX. Barkley FOTC 83 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia IX §§1–11 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia IX §§1–11)

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