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This new translation of Origen’s Homilies on Leviticus may be read as a companion to Ronald E. Heine’s translation of Origen’s Homilies on Genesis and Exodus, volume 71 in the Fathers of the Church series. Both volumes reveal Origen’s tenacious belief that, although the meaning of Scripture was threefold, that is, literal, moral, and spiritual, the most important interpretation was the spiritual....

in the form of a lion by which God is conveyed or another in the form of a calf or of an eagle. If these are of this kind, they are not to be brought forth raw but are to be baked in “the oven” of the heart. (3) And so, there are these three in which it says the sacrifice ought to be prepared, “in an oven, on a gridiron, in a frying pan.” I think that “the oven”, by reason of its form, signifies some things more profound which are unmentionable in divine Scriptures. “The gridiron” is those which,
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