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Annotatio CXXVII — Numbers 26:53

“To these shall the land be divided for a possession, according to the number of the names.”

Annotatio CXXVII

”To these shall the land be divided for a possession, according to the number of the names.” — Numbers 26:53

Origen, in homily 21 on Numbers, upon these words, says that there is a twofold kind of the blessed:1 one higher and more perfect, which shall see God face to face; the other lower, which shall only inherit the land of the living — that is, [shall possess] only immortality, sublimity, and power. Origen has an opinion alluding to this in homily 35 on Luke. See Annotation 345 of the following volume.

Footnotes

  1. Right margin: Whether all the blessed shall see God. (Num beati omnes Deum videant.) ↩