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Origen of Alexandria (185–254), one of the most prolific authors of antiquity and arguably the most important and influential pre-Nicene Christian theologian, was a man of deep learning and holiness of life. Regrettably, many of his works are no longer extant, in part due to the condemnation of his ideas by the Fifth Ecumenical Council in 553. The condemnation, however, took little account of his...

of life and faith will be said to have stages, in which increases in virtues are acquired one by one, and what is written is fulfilled: “They will go from virtue to virtue,”50 until the soul reaches its final end, or rather, the highest degree of the virtues, and it crosses the river of God and receives the promised inheritance. 6.1. And so, by using a twofold manner of explanation, we should consider this entire sequence of stages which has been read aloud, so that progress may come to our soul
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