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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...

as an example—whether one should be considered a heretic who investigates the question of the human soul, since concerning it the Church’s rule has handed down neither that it is derived from the propagation of seed, nor that it is more honorable and more ancient than the structure of bodies.481 For that reason many have been unable to comprehend what their opinion should be concerning the question of the soul. Moreover, those who have seemed to hold some opinion or to discuss anything are held in
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