Homilies on Numbers, Homilia VI

Origen of Alexandria · c. 240–245 · Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) · Original English Translation

Contents3 passages

1Seventy elders and the Spirit
2Spirit resting and false spirit
3Moses, the Cushite wife, and Miriam

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

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Seventy elders and the Spirit§1

1Many things were read to us at once. Moses went out to the people and spoke the words of the Lord. A church teacher is “within” while he speaks God’s deep wisdom among the perfect; he “goes outside” when he offers the crowds what the multitude can hear. So Paul spoke wisdom among the perfect. The Lord chose seventy elders and put the spirit that was on Moses upon them. Do not take “spirit” as a material stuff, but as the Holy Spirit in the holy.

Latin · §1

Plura nobis simul recitata sunt. Moyses exiit ad populum et locutus est verba Domini. Doctor ecclesiae intus est cum profunda Dei sapientiae inter perfectos loquitur; foras exit cum ad turbas profert quae vulgus audire potest. Paulus sapientiam inter perfectos loquebatur. Dominus septuaginta seniores elegit; spiritum qui in Moyse erat posuit super eos. Non materialem spiritum intelligas, sed spiritum sanctum in sanctis.

Spirit resting and false spirit§2

2The Spirit rests on the holy; an evil spirit plays its part wherever room is given. One baptizes with water; he on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining — that is he. Scripture shows God’s Spirit sometimes present, sometimes withdrawn. The spirits are to be discerned.

Latin · §2

Requiescit spiritus in sanctis et malus spiritus partes suas agit ubi locus datur. Baptizare in aqua alterius est; super quem videris spiritum descendentem et manentem, ipse est. Spiritus Dei aliquando adest, aliquando recessisse ostenditur. Discernendi sunt spiritus.

Moses, the Cushite wife, and Miriam§3

3 Moses had taken a Cushite wife; Miriam and Aaron spoke against him. Miriam becomes leprous. Miriam figures the former people; Moses the law; the Cushite the church from the nations. The synagogue is offended at the wife from the Gentiles. Miriam is put outside the camp; the leprosy of sin appears when the cloud of grace withdraws.

Latin · §3

Moyses Aethiopissam duxit uxorem; Maria et Aaron detraxerunt. Maria leprosa efficitur. Maria formam prioris populi habet; Moyses legem; Aethiopissa ecclesiam ex gentibus. Synagoga indignatur de uxore ex gentibus. Maria eicitur extra castra; lepra peccati apparet cum nubes gratiae recesserit.

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