Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XXII · §1

Daughters of Zelophehad

On Zelophehad’s daughters and Moses’ successor: five daughters, their father dead without a son, appeal to Moses for a share of inheritance.

Latin

De filiabus Salphaat et de successore Moysis. Quinque filiae Salphaat mortuo patre sine filio interpellant Moysen sortem hereditatis.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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