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Origen, son of the martyr Leonides, oldest in a family of seven children was born probably at Alexandria 184/85 and died probably in Tyre 253/54 after imprisonment and torture during the Decian persecution. Surnamed “man of steel,” Origen was an outstanding theologian of the early Greek-speaking Church, a man of the virtue and a genius with a prodigious capacity for work, an excellent teacher to...

and his angels” will be.8 This indeed is most clearly designated also in the Gospel when it is said of the Savior: “And the demons which he was casting out were asking him that he not command them to go into the abyss.”9 For this reason, therefore, God dissolved the darkness as the Scripture says: “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God divided between the light and the darkness. And God called the light day and he called the darkness
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