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This volume completes the first English translation of Rufinus’s Latin version of Origen of Alexandria’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans and contains Origen’s detailed exegesis of Romans 6:12–16:27. Origen’s much neglected Commentary, which stands out in splendid isolation at the fountainhead of Greek and Latin exegesis, is now completely accessible to English readers. In Books 6–10,...

(5) A person speaks of things that Christ has not accomplished through him if anyone should speak and teach about self-control when he himself is not self-controlled; or if anyone speaks about sobriety or about justice or about giving away wealth and despising material resources for the kingdom of God and, in the one who is teaching these things, Christ has accomplished none of these things. And therefore, the Apostle offers himself as a model and says that what he speaks and preaches to others is
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