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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XV · §2

Altars and the first oracle

Balak builds altars; Balaam goes to meet omens. The Lord puts a word in his mouth: he cannot curse whom God has not cursed.

Latin

Balac aedificat aras; Balaam vadit in occursum divinationis. Dominus ponit verbum in ore eius: non maledicere potest quos Deus non maledixit.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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