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Commentary on the Gospel according to John, Books 13–32 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume contains what remains of Books 13–32 of Origen’s Commentary on the Gospel according to John, and thus completes the publication of the first full English translation of this work that stands as the beginning of Christian scriptural exegesis. Ronald Heine introduces his translation with a discussion of the times and circumstances within which the commentary was composed. He also...

(333) “And the priests could not stand ministering309 before the cloud, because the glory of the Lord filled the house.”310 (334) The following things have also been said of Moses’ glory in Exodus. “And when Moses descended from the mountain, and the two tablets of the covenant were in Moses’ hands; and when he descended from the mountain Moses also did not know that the appearance of his facial skin had been glorified while he spoke with him. And Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, and
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