The beams of our house are cedar
The beams of our houses are cedar. These are words of the many. They seem to me to be spoken by the men who are with the Bridegroom, of whom speech was made above. Our house — that is, the church — is upheld by cedar beams, because cedar is incorruptible, and the teaching of apostles and prophets holds the church without decay.
Latin
Trabes domorum nostrarum cedri. Haec multitudinis verba sunt. Videntur autem mihi viri hoc dicere qui cum sponso sunt, de quibus superius sermo praefatus est. Domus nostra, id est ecclesia, trabibus cedrinis fulcitur, quia cedrus imputribilis est, et doctrina apostolorum et prophetarum imputribiliter ecclesiam continet.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia II on the Song of Songs (Jerome’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–13.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Jerome’s Latin of Homilia II. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia II §§1–13 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Homilia II §§1–13)
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