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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....

encounter counterfeit and hypocritical hearers, let them put on “the apron,” let them use “the thigh covering,”55 Let not the seed of the word of the Lord perish because the Lord commands and says the same things. “Do not give what is holy to the dogs or cast your pearls before swine lest they trample them under foot and turning they break you to pieces.”56 (4) For that reason, if anyone wants to be a high priest not just in name but in worthiness, let him imitate Moses; let him imitate Aaron. What
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