Commentary on the Gospel according to John, Books 13

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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...

temple, in order to understand the passage of John that is before us. If we refer the temple of God and [the things] related to the temple anagogically to the spiritual explanation,74 let us consequently also understand the treasury in the temple in this way. It is a place of coins contributed for the honor of God and a dispensation of rest for the poor. (44) Now what else would these coins be than the divine words that have the image of the great King75 imprinted on them, which are examined by

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