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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XIV · §3

Mouth opened; eyes opened

The Lord opens the donkey’s mouth and Balaam’s eyes. Divine correction meets confession: I have sinned unknowingly.

Latin

Aperit Dominus os asinae et oculos Balaam. Correctio divina et confessio: peccavi ignorans.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia XIV 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 XIV. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia XIV §§1–3 (closeout).

Witnesses

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

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