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Homilies on the Psalms: Codex Monacensis Graecus 314 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In 2012 Dr. Marina Marin Pradel, an archivist at the Bayerische Stattsbibliotek in Munich, discovered that a thick 12th-century Byzantine manuscript, Codex Monacensis Graecus 314, contained twenty-nine of Origen’s Homilies on the Psalms, hitherto considered lost. Lorenzo Perrone of the University of Bologna, an internationally respected scholar of Origen, vouched for the identification and...

that I lend the Gospels, that I lend the apostles, and that, in lending, I should not be a sinner, so that I may not be punished, but as a just person I can return with interest from my conduct the capital of the logoi I have heard. “The sinner,” then, “borrows and will not pay back.”93 If you should borrow what concerns temperance, give back what concerns temperance. If you should be a sinner, you borrow, but without giving back. If you borrow what concerns justice, give back what you hear about
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