HOMILIES ON GENESIS AND EXODUS
Translated by
RONALD E. HEINE
Lincoln Christian College and Seminary
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Origen.
Homilies on Genesis and Exodus.
(The Fathers of the Church; v. 71)
English translation of: Homiliae in Genesim;
In Exodum homiliae/by Origen; Latin translation by Rufinus Tyrannius.
Bibliography: p. vii
Includes indexes.
1. Bible. O.T. Genesis—Sermons. 2. Bible. O.T. Exodus—Sermons. 3. Sermons, English—Translations from Latin. 4. Sermons, Latin—Translations into English. I. Heine, Ronald E. II. Origen. In Exodum homiliae. III. Title. IV. Series.
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THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
EDITORIAL BOARD
Hermigild Dressler, O.F.M.
The Catholic University of America Press
Editorial Director
Robert P. Russell, O.S.A. Villanova University | Thomas P. Halton The Catholic University of America |
Robert Sider Dickinson College | Sister M. Josephine Brennan, I.H.M. Marywood College |
FORMER EDITORIAL DIRECTORS
Ludwig Schopp, Roy J. Deferrari, Bernard M. Peebles
Richard Talaska
Editorial Assistant
Eusebius and the Life of Origen
The Preservation of Origen’s Works
The Latin Translations of Rufinus of Aquileia
Rufinus’ Assumptions, Methodology, and Reliability as a Translator
The Greek Fragments of the Homilies on Genesis and Exodus
The Latin Manuscript Tradition, Editions and Translations of the Homilies on Genesis and Exodus
Appendix: The Interpretation of Names in the Genesis and Exodus Homilies
Texts and Translations of Origen’s Works
Baehrens. W. ed. Origenes Werke: Homilien zum Hexateuch in Rufins Übersetzung. Part 1, Die Homilien zu Genesis, Exodus und Leviticus. Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte, vol. 29. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchandlung, 1920.
Blanc, C., ed. and trans. Origène: Commentaire sur St. Jean. Vol. I. Sources chrétiennes, vol. 120. Paris: Les éditions du Cerf, 1966.
Butterworth, G., trans. Origen: On First Principles. 1936. Reprint. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
Chadwick, H., trans. Origen: Contra Celsum. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1965.
Doutreleau, L., ed. and trans. Origène: Homélies sur la Genèse. Source chrétiennes, vol. 7bis. Paris: Les éditions ...
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About Homilies on Genesis and ExodusOrigen, son of the martyr Leonides, oldest in a family of seven children was born probably at Alexandria 184/85 and died probably in Tyre 253/54 after imprisonment and torture during the Decian persecution. Surnamed “man of steel,” Origen was an outstanding theologian of the early Greek-speaking Church, a man of the virtue and a genius with a prodigious capacity for work, an excellent teacher to whose lectures students flocked “and did not give him time to breathe for one bath of pupils after another kept frequenting from morn till night his lecture-room” (Eusebius, H.E. 6, 15). As an author Origen surpasses all the writers of the Early Church in literary output. A list complied by Eusebius, now unfortunately lost, credited Origen with some 2000 books. Even a far shorter list known to St. Jerome and mentioned by him in his Letter To Paula giving the number of 786 works is still impressive. Jerome then goes on to add some reflections. “Do you see the Greeks and Latins outstripped by the work of one man? Who could ever read all that he wrote? What reward did he receive for this exertion? He is condemned by bishop Demetrius; except for the bishops of Palestine, Arabia, Phoenicia and Achaia the world concurs in his condemnation. Rome itself convokes an assembly against this man not because of novelty of teachings, not because of heresy as now mad dogs pretend against him, but because they could not bear the fame of his eloquence and learning and were considered speechless when he spoke.” |
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