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Thirty-nine of Origen’s homilies on the Gospel of Luke survive in Jerome’s Latin translation. Origen preached them in Caesarea, perhaps around 234 or 240, to a congregation of catechumens and faithful. Most of the homilies are short; on average, they treat about six verses of the Gospel and would have lasted between eight and twelve minutes. The first 33 homilies treat chapters one through four...

On the passage, “But both were just in God’s sight and walked without blame in all the Lord’s commandments and precepts.” PEOPLE WHO WANT to offer an excuse for their sins claim that no one is without sin. They appeal to the testimony of the Book of Job, where Scripture says, “No one is clean from filth, not even if his life upon the earth has been only one day long. His months can be numbered.”1 But they only mouth the words of this verse and are wholly ignorant of its meaning.
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