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Origen: Homilies on Judges is unavailable, but you can change that!

In his General Audience of May 2, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI praised Origen for his “primordial role” in the history of lectio divina, the prayerful reading of Scripture. He explained that Origen approaches Scripture reading not as “mere study” but as the pathway to knowing Christ and “falling in love with him.” Origen’s nine extant homilies on Judges exemplify this approach. In them, Origen calls...

of the body, in this case, if you “give place to anger”32 and flee from place to place, a military offense is not imputed to you. For also this is described in the laws of Christ, who says: “If they should persecute you in this town, flee into another; but if in the other, flee yet into another.”33 For the point of the thing is not to deny Jesus, whom you once confessed. For it is certain that he should confess him [Christ], he who for that reason flees lest he should deny him [Christ]. Therefore,
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