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Origen: Homilies on Jeremiah and Homily on 1 Kings 28 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Souls existing before their bodies, witches summoning dead prophets from the underworld, the return of the damned—and the Devil himself—to God in the end, and many other theological speculations surprise the reader of Origen’s Homilies on Jeremiah and I Kings 28. Some of these very theses of the third-century priest from Alexandria, Egypt, were condemned in the Second Council of Constantinople....

those who engender contempt for Providence, offenses to God, blasphemy on him who created the world. Thus some give glory to God,119 but those who do what is opposite to the glory of God through sins do not give glory to God. 12. Give glory to the Lord your God before it darkens, before your feet stumble on the dark mountains.120 There are certain dark mountains, there are certain bright mountains.121 Since122 both of them are mountains, both are great. The bright mountains are the holy angels of
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