Fathers

Homilies on Numbers, Homilia XXVI · §2

All come to the fire

We must all come to that fire — even a Paul or Peter. Such hear: it will not harm you.

Latin

Omnes nos venire necesse est ad illum ignem; etiamsi Paulus sit vel Petrus. Tales audiunt: non nocebit tibi.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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