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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....

see how God is one who raises up clouds from the last of the earth.65 How from the last of the earth? The Savior says, He who wants to be first among you will be last of all.66 Paul observed this commandment and was last in this world. So he said, For I think God has exhibited us Apostles as last of all, like those sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.67 Hence if there is anyone who observes the commandment of the Savior and becomes last with respect
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