sermons were preached and recorded but that either Origen or someone else decided, for one reason or another, against publishing them. Perhaps what we have here is an indication of how the ministry of the Word was carried out in the church of Caesarea at the time. The lectio continua went on each day even if another preacher filled in, or if there was no preacher to comment on the lesson. On the other hand, perhaps all this indicates is that while Origen had preached something like sixty or seventy