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Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 6–10 is unavailable, but you can change that!

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,...

he calls his own spirit the Holy Spirit’s grace that is given by God to men. For this reason as well, when he encourages us not to possess this benefit of the Holy Spirit unfruitfully, he goes on and says, “What then? I shall pray with the Spirit, I shall pray also with the mind; I shall sing a psalm with the Spirit and I shall sing a psalm with my mind.”156 Although Paul then has indicated that these things are unutterable and are accomplished by unutterable groanings, nevertheless we have set forth
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