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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...

Scripture,516 uses the body of a lion, or the flesh of a dragon, since he is named a dragon.517 So shall it be that, according to them, this transmigration of souls reaches even into the nature of demons, so that there could sometimes be a lion or a dragon that has the devil for its soul. 187. PAMPHILUS. And shortly after this he says: 188. ORIGEN [70].518 But all these additional fabrications are in vain. For it is obvious that the Lord has determined in advance a single punishment for sins, both
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