Loading…

Origen: Homilies on Luke and Fragments on Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

neighbor?” The Lord adduced a parable, which begins, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem into Jericho,” and so on.7 And he teaches that the man going down was the neighbor of no one except of him who willed to keep the commandments and prepare himself to be a neighbor to every one who needs help. For, this is what is found after the parable, at its end: “Which of these three does it seem to you is the neighbor of the man who fell among robbers?” Neither the priest nor the Levite was his
Page 138