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Apology for Origen: With the Letter of Rufinus on the Falsification of the Books of Origen is unavailable, but you can change that!

Presented here for the first time in English translation (from Rufinus’s Latin version) is the Apology for Origen, the sole surviving work of St. Pamphilus of Caesarea (d. 310 AD), who was one of the most celebrated priest-martyrs of the ancient Church. Written from prison with the collaboration of Eusebius (later to become the bishop of Caesarea), the Apology attempts to refute accusations made...

the first to “rest in hope,” is saying these things. For he was crucified and became “firstborn from the dead”;448 and after the resurrection he was assumed into heaven449 and took his earthly body with him, so that the heavenly powers were terrified and stunned when they saw flesh ascending into heaven. For it is written of Elijah that he was, as it were, assumed into heaven,450 and of Enoch, that he was translated,451 but it is not said that he ascended into heaven.452 The one who wants may take
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