Fathers

Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XXIII · §2

Legal types and gospel faith

By Christ’s coming the nations turn to God. What was then observed was magnificent, yet a shadow of the heavenly.

Latin

Ex adventu Christi gentes convertuntur ad Deum. Magnifica erant quae tunc observabantur, sed umbra caelestium.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.