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Origen: Treatise on the Passover and Dialogue of Origen with Heraclides and His Fellow Bishops on the Father, the Son, and the Soul is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Treatise on the Passover was written around AD 245. Its central insight is that the Passover is not a figure or type of the passion of Christ, but a figure of Christ himself. The Dialogue with Heraclides was written between AD 244 and 249. It is the record of an unknown meeting—probably a synod—of bishops called to discuss matters of belief and worship. Both pieces come from the last decade...

In August, 1941, at Tura, some dozen kilometers south of Cairo, while work was underway to clear rubbish from a limestone cave, formerly a Pharaonic quarry, in preparation for the storage of munitions for the British army, a small papyrus library of works by Origen (ca. 185–251/5) and Didymus the Blind (313–398) was discovered. In all likelihood, they had come from a former Greek monastery, abandoned since the eleventh century, whose ruins are situated on the plateau
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