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Homilies on Leviticus, Homilia IX · §7

What the high priest does next

The high priest takes blood and enters within the veil. Christ alone enters the true holy places.

Latin

Pontifex sumit de sanguine et infert intra velamen. Solus Christus intrat vera sancta.

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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