Homilies on Leviticus, Homily VIII
c. 238–250
Homilia VIII in Leviticum
Origen’s eighth homily on Leviticus (in Rufinus’s Latin): Christ as physician; the law of childbirth impurity; the celebrated argument that none of the saints kept birthday feasts—only Pharaoh and Herod are found celebrating them—and the allegory of the kinds of leprosy.
Translated by Claude (study translation from Latin)
Latin: Rufinus’s translation of Origen’s Homilies on Leviticus, Migne PG 12 (1862), with Baehrens GCS 29 (1920). English: study translation (CC0) from that Latin—not the copyrighted Barkley (Fathers of the Church) translation. Technical terms and contested passages may be revised.
Contents
- Homily 8.1: Christ the physician
- Homily 8.2: The law of the woman who bears a child
- Homily 8.3: Why birth makes unclean; saints and birthday feasts
- Homily 8.4: Circumcision on the eighth day
- Homily 8.5: Six kinds of leprosy
- Homily 8.6: Leprosy covering all the skin
- Homily 8.7: The ulcer and the scar
- Homily 8.8: The burn by fire
- Homily 8.9: Leprosy of the head or beard
- Homily 8.10: Baldness and the law of the leper
- Homily 8.11: The cleansing of the leper