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Origen composed at least 32 books of a commentary on the Gospel according to John, at the request of St. Ambrose of Milan. Of these, only nine books are extant in almost complete form, although we have selections of others persevered in other collections of the works of Origen. The commentary proceeds verse by verse, and is particularly notable for its emphasis on the spiritual meaning of the...

all the New Testament is gospel, not only because it declares alike with the beginning of the Gospel, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world,”25 but also because it contains various ascriptions of praise and teachings of him on account of whom the gospel is gospel. (18) Furthermore, if God placed apostles, prophets, and evangelists,26 and pastors and teachers, in the Church,27 when we examine what the task of the evangelist is, we see that it is not exclusively to narrate in
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