Fathers

Homilies on Numbers, Homilia I · §2

Each according to his signs

Each man according to his order and according to his signs shall pitch camp. “Signs” are the marks that name each person — and each soul: one mild, another stormy. Let each walk by his signs; by zeal we can move from lesser signs to greater. In the resurrection star differs from star in glory.

Latin

Homo secundum ordinem suum et secundum signa sua castra collocent. Signa — proprietates quibus unusquisque designatur, etiam in animis: alius mitis, alius turbidus. Unusquisque secundum signa sua incedat; aemulatione a inferioribus ad meliora signa venire possumus. In resurrectione stella a stella differt in gloria.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia I on Numbers (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–3.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia I. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia I §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia I §§1–3)

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