It has become standard for modern commentators to quote this agnostic opinion as representative of Origen’s view on the authorship of Hebrews, although in some of his writings he attributes Hebrews to Paul (First Principles 1.2.5; 3.1.10, 2.4; 4.1.24, 27; Against Celsus 3.53; 7.29). Origen even challenges those who dispute Pauline authorship of Hebrews and claims an interest in proving otherwise (Letter to Africanus 8). Despite that challenge, Eusebius reports that Origen entertained the possibility