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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...

thing, when it is said that “he was sleeping in the stern on a pillow,” as Mark reports, and is roused from his sleep by someone.336 For although these things may contain a spiritual understanding, yet the spiritual meaning ought to be received as well, while the prior truth of the historical narrative abides. For just as he is always curing those who are blind according to the spiritual understanding, by illuminating minds that are blinded by ignorance, yet he also physically337 healed the blind
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