with the bishop of Alexandria, he traveled widely and finally settled at the city of Caesarea in Palestine. Origen always was very controversial. Even today some think of him more as a heretic than as a saint; nevertheless, he does give us a very clear picture of the preaching of the earliest Christians. On weekday mornings Origen preached through the books of the Old Testament one by one. Today we have some twenty of his sermons on Genesis, about fifteen on Exodus, and a similar number on the other