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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.

opening sections of De principiis IV (see below, pp. 171ff.) suggest that Origen is not concerned with mere abstraction but with a truth embodied in a living community. “And it is all the more amazing that while their teachers are neither very capable nor very many, nevertheless, this word is preached throughout the whole world so that Greeks and barbarians, wise and foolish uphold the religion of Christ’s teaching” (see below, p. 172). It is this conviction that explains Origen’s willingness to
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