Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 6

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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,...

(4) But let us see the meaning of what he says, “The Spirit himself intercedes for us.” For John even indicates that Jesus does this when he says, “Little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone of us does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus, the just,”150 he who also intercedes for us.151 And here the Spirit intercedes for us. Now the Spirit does this by helping our weakness. But what our weakness is the Lord himself teaches when he says, “The

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