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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....

continue to do all things, only let them pray that they are persecuted unjustly and not justly, not on account of injustice, not on account of sin, not on account of greed. And if anyone is persecuted for righteousness, let him hear this: Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you for my sake. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in the heavens, for so they persecuted the prophets before you.108 14. “Because I am with you to take you away,”
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