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Homilies on Numbers, Homilia IX · §3

Aaron’s rod that budded

The twelve rods are set in the tent; Aaron’s rod put forth buds, flowers, and almonds. It prefigures the rod from the root of Jesse and the flower of Christ. True priesthood blossoms in Christ. To whom be glory forever. Amen.

Latin

Virgae duodecim tribuum in tabernaculo ponuntur; virga Aaron germina germinavit et flores produxit et amygdalas. Virga de radice Iesse flosque Christi praefiguratur. Sacerdotium verum in Christo floret. Cui gloria in saecula. Amen.

About this text

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

Witnesses

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

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