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Origen: An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer; First Principles: Book IV; Prologue to the Commentary on the Song of Songs; Homily XXVII on Numbers is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume consists of the important and influential writings of Origen, a Christian mystic and early father of the church. Origen (c. 185–254) was born in Alexandria and lived through the turbulent years during the collapse of the Roman Empire.

8:29; 2 Cor. 3:18), have come to imitate the image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15; 2 Cor. 4:4; cf. Contra Celsum VIII. 17) and have come to be after the image of the Creator (Col. 3:10), who makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust (Mt. 5:45), so that the image of the Man from heaven (1 Cor. 15:49), who is Himself the image of God, is in them. The saints, therefore, are an image of an image (cf. 1 Cor. 11:7), since the Son is the image (Col. 1:15).
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