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Origen: The Song of Songs, Commentary and Homilies is unavailable, but you can change that!

Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, widely regarded as the first great work of Christian mysticism, is characterized by extraordinary intellectual depth and spiritual understanding. The Homilies, also reflecting profound insight, were likely written only a short time after the Commentary.

of wine, and to enjoy the teachings of wisdom and the mysteries of knowledge as the sweetness of a banquet and the gladness of wine. We must however recognize the fact that besides this wine which is pressed from the dogmas of truth and mingled in Wisdom’s bowl, there is another wine of an opposite nature with which sinners and those who accept the harmful dogmas of false learning wickedly get drunk. Of these Solomon says in Proverbs: They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of iniquity.
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