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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...

every man coming into this world”5 and we offer our souls to it6 in order to be enlightened, or if “the sun of justice”7 rises up within us and “illuminates the world” of our soul, then we also possess the “days of Jesus” Christ, the days of salvation. But if someone offers his soul in order to receive that light which “will be extinguished,”8 the light contrary to truth, and is illuminated by it, he also will himself possess days, but evil ones. He will not be in the days of Jesus, but he will
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