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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.

to them. Moreover, some of the simpler people who seem to be included within the faith of the Church, while they do not think there is a God greater than the Creator God and in this preserve a right and sound opinion, nevertheless hold opinions about Him that should not be held concerning the most unjust and cruelest man. 2. Now the reason those we have just mentioned have a false understanding of these matters is quite simply that they understand Scripture not according to the spiritual meaning
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