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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XXIV · §2

End and fruit of the discipline

When perfection has followed, it will delight us to have borne the rudiments’ trouble — so also in the holy writings.

Latin

Cum perfectio consecuta fuerit, delectabit rudimentorum pertulisse molestias. Ita in sanctis litteris.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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