Origen, Homilies on Joshua 15

Origen Adamantius was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer who wrote several treatises on theology, textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. In the Homilies on Joshua, Origen unfolds the story of the Christian life from baptism to resurrection and the celestial rewards, basing his exposition on the death of Moses, the crossing of the Jordan, and the conquest of Palestine. The Greek original is lost, and the homilies survive through Rufinus of Aquileia, who translated them into Latin around 400 C.E. The text given here is a simplified translation based on Rufinus' Latin text.