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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XVII · §1

Third prophecy; another summit

We treat Balaam’s third prophecy. Balak thinks only the place failed the curse and leads him to the summit of Peor.

Latin

Tertiam prophetiam Balaam tractamus. Balac putat locum defuisse maledictioni; ducit eum in verticem Phogor.

About this text

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

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

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