Heretic foxes; power to catch; little vines
Of the church: foxes are perverse teachers of heresies; teachers of the church receive power to catch them as to tread on serpents. Little vineyards are unformed souls open to scandal; the perfect have much peace and no scandal.
Latin
De ecclesia: vulpes = perversi doctores haereticorum; doctores ecclesiae potestatem capiendi accipiunt sicut calcandi serpentes. Pusillae vineae = animae rudes scandalizabiles; perfectae pax multa sine scandalo.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber IV (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber IV. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber IV §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber IV §§1–20)
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