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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XXV · §1

Vengeance on Midian

On vengeance against Midian: Israel fornicated with Midianite women; now the Lord says, Avenge the vengeance.

Latin

De ultione quae in Madianitas facta est. Filii Israel fornicati sunt cum Madianitis; nunc Dominus: ulciscere ultionem.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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