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  • THE PHILOCALIA OF ORIGEN
  1: . 1 Philocalia = love of the beautiful. The word may be contrasted with Apeirocalia  ---- ignoranc[...]
  2: . 2 Basil of Caesarea (329-379 A.D.); Gregory of Nazianzus (d. 389 or 390 A.D.).
  3: . 3 S. Greg. Ep. cxv.


  • PREFACE TO THE GREEK EDITION
  4: . 1 Presbyter of Alexandria, A.D. 319. "Arianism was largely the result of a mental and moral tempe[...]
  5: . 1 S. Cyr., Alex. Ep. xliv.


  • CHAP. I.  ---- Of the inspiration of the Divine Scripture; how it is to be read and understood; why it is obscure; and what is the reason of the obscurity in it, and of what is impossible in some cases, or unreasonable, when it is taken literally. From the work on "Principles" and various other works of Origen.
  1: . 1 As "oracles."
  2: . 2 Matt. x. 18; cf. Mark xiii. 9.
  3: . 3 Matt. vii. 22 f.; cf. Luke xiii. 26.
  4: . 4 Cf. Gen. xlix. 10.
  5: . 5 Hos. iii. 4.
  6: . 6 For the Heb. teraphim the Sept. has delon. Schleusner shows that this word was used for the cl[...]
  7: . 1 Gen. xlix. 10.
  8: . 2 Deut. xxxii. 21.
  9: . 1 1 Cor. i. 26 ff.
  10: . 2 Ps. xlv. (xliv.) 1 f.
  11: . 3 Ps. lxxii. (lxxi.) 7 f.
  12: . 4 Cf. Isa. vii. 14; Matt. i. 215.
  13: . 5 Isa. viii. 11 f.
  14: . 6 Matt. ii. 6; cf. Mic. v. 2.
  15: . 1 Dan. ix. 24.
  16: . 2 Job iii. 8.
  17: . 3 Luke x. 19.
  18: . 4 Cf. Heb. ii. 4.
  19: . 1 Cf. 2 Cor. iii. 16; Heb. x. 1.
  20: . 2 2 Cor. iv. 7,
  21: . 3 Or, "being stored up in the books (of the Bible)," etc.
  22: . 1 1 Cor. ii. 4 f.
  23: . 2 Heb. vi. 1.
  24: . 3 1 Cor. ii. 6 f.
  25: . 4 Rom. xvi. 25 ff.
  26: . 5 2 Tim. i. 10.
  27: . 6 Isa. lxi. i.
  28: . 7 Isa. xlv. 13.
  29: . 8 Zech. ix. 10.
  30: . 9 Isa. vii. 15.
  31: . 1 Isa. xi. 6 f.
  32: . 2 Jer. xv. 14.
  33: . 3 Ex. xx. 5.
  34: . 4 Cf. 1 Sam. xv. 11, 17, 35.
  35: . 5 Isa. xlv. 7.
  36: . 6 Amos iii. 6.
  37: . 7 Mic. i. 12.
  38: . 8 1 Sam. xvi. 14.
  39: . 9 World-builder ---- Creator.
  40: . 1 Cf. Gen. xix. 30 ff.
  41: . 2 Cf. Gen. xvi.
  42: . 3 Cf Gen. xxix. 21 ff.
  43: . 4 Cf. Ex. xxv. ff.
  44: . 1 1 Cor. ii. 16, 12 f.
  45: . 2 The Greek word is used in the Sept. for the Heb. for network, laced work, and so a lattice. In [...]
  46: . 1 Luke xi. 52.
  47: . 2 Prov. xxii. 20 f.
  48: . 3 1 Cor. ii. 6 f.
  49: . 4 Heb. x. 1.
  50: . 5 Herm. Vis. ii. 4.
  51: . 1 Widows and orphans ---- " Those who are not yet united with the Spouse of the Church, though d[...]
  52: . 2 "By this he evidently means that certain passages taken literally do not instruct us, for no o[...]
  53: . 3 John ii. 6.
  54: . 4 Rom. ii. 29.
  55: . 5 That is, a number equal to the sum of its factors or divisors. Thus 6 = 3 + 2 + 1.
  56: . 1 1 Cor. ix. 9 f.; cf. Deut. xxv. 4.
  57: . 2 Heb. viii. 5; x. 1.
  58: . 3 1 Cor. ii. 7 f.
  59: . 4 1 Cor. x. 11.
  60: . 5 1 Cor. x. 4.
  61: . 6 Heb. viii. 5; cf, Ex. xxv. 40.
  62: . 7 Gal. iv. 21 ff
  63: . 1 Col. ii. 16 f.
  64: . 2 Heb. viii. 5.
  65: . 3 That is, "inspired."
  66: . 4 Rom. xi. 4 ; cf. 1 Kings xix. 18,
  67: . 5 Rom. xi. 5.
  68: . 6 "Divine."
  69: . 1 See sec. 14, beginning.
  70: . 1 Gen. i. 5.
  71: . 2 Gen. ii. 8 f.
  72: . 3 Gen. iii. 8.
  73: . 4 Gen. iv. 16.
  74: . 1 Matt. iv. 8.
  75: . 2 Cf. Lev. xi. 14.
  76: . 3 Gen. xvii. 14.
  77: . 4 Cf. Deut. xiv. 5, 12.
  78: . 5 Ex. xvi. 29.
  79: . 1 Jer. xvii. 21.
  80: . 2 Luke x. 4.
  81: . 3 Matt. v. 39.
  82: . 4 Matt. v. 28 f.
  83: . 5 1 Cor. vii. 18.
  84: . 1 See above. The Spirit is supposed to invent some of the history for the sake of the spiritual m[...]
  85: . 2 Gen. xxv. 9 f.
  86: . 3 Gen. xlviii. 22; Josh. xxiv. 32.
  87: . 4 Ex. xx. 12; cf. Eph. vi. 2 f.
  88: . 5 "The spiritual world in which the interpretation of Scripture is realised, may be regarded as [...]
  89: . 1 Ex. xx. 13 ff.
  90: . 2 Matt. v. 22.
  91: . 3 Matt. v. 34.
  92: . 4 1 Thess. v. 14.
  93: . 5 John v. 39.
  94: . 1 1 Cor. x. 18.
  95: . 2 Rom. ix. 8, 6.
  96: . 3 Rom. ii. 28 f.
  97: . 1 Matt. xv. 24.
  98: . 1 Rom. ix. 8.
  99: . 2 Gal. iv. 26 f.
  100: . 3 Heb. xii. 22 f.
  101: . 4 Rufinus, "If we listen to the words of Paul as the words of Christ speaking in him."
  102: . 5 Or, "refers us."
  103: . 6 That is, "Egyptians," etc., literally.
  104: . 1 Isa. xiv. 12.
  105: . 2 Ezek. xxix. 11 f.
  106: . 3 Matt. xv. 24 ; cf. John xi. 52.
  107: . 4 Matt. xiii. 44.
  108: . 1 Col. ii. 3 ; Isa. xlv. 2f.
  109: . 2 Heb. xi. 12 ; cf. Gen. xxii. 17.
  110: . 3 Matt. v. 14.
  111: . 4 Rom. ix. 6.
  112: . 1 Eccles. v. 1.
  113: . 2 Ex. xxxiv. 20.
  114: . 3 Cf. Isa. i. 16.
  115: . 4 Rom. ix. 33; 1 Pet. ii. 7; cf. Isa. viii. 14.
  116: . 5 Rom. ix. 33; cf. Isa. xxviii. 16.
  117: . 6 Or, "reconciling the nmrder of the man with his evident kindliness."
  118: . 1 Wisd. xvii. 1.
  119: . 2 1 Cor. ii. 7 f.
  120: . 3 Rom. xvi. 25 f.
  121: . 4 2 Tim. i. 10; John i. 1 f.
  122: . 5 Rom. ii. 28 f.
  123: . 1 Rom. i. 20.
  124: . 2 That is, which come within the province of the reason, as opposed to things simply visible. [...]
  125: . 3 Heb. viii. 5.


  • CHAP. II.  ---- That the Divine Scripture is closed up and sealed. From the Commentary on the 1st Psalm.
  126: . 4 Ex. xxviii. 32.
  127: . 5 Rev. iii. 7 f.
  128: . 1 Rev. v. 1 ff.
  129: . 2 Isa. xxix. 11 f.
  130: . 3 Luke xi. 51; cf. Matt. xxiii. 14.
  131: . 1 1 Cor. ii. 13.
  132: . 2 See Chap. viii.
  133: . 3 Ps. xii. (xi.) 7.
  134: . 4 Cf. Luke i. 2.
  135: . 5 Matt. v. 18.
  136: . 1 Or, "providence." 


  • CHAP. III.  ----  Why the inspired books are twenty-two in number. From the same volume on the 1st Psalm.
  137: . 1 This total was made by taking Ruth with Judges, and Lamentations with Jeremiah. See Sanday, Ins[...]
  138: . 2 "It is noteworthy that the supposed agreement in the number of the Hebrew letters with the num[...]


  • CHAP. IV.  ---- Of the solecisms and poor style of Scripture. From Volume IV. of the Commentaries on the Gospel according to John, three or four pages from the beginning.
  139: . 1 Or, "inaccurate."
  140: . 2 I Cor. ii. 4.
  141: . 3 2 Cor. xi. 6.
  142: . 4 2 Cor. iv. 7.
  143: . 5 Col. ii. 3.
  144: . 6 1 Cor. i. 26 f.
  145: . 1 Rom. i. 14.
  146: . 2 2 Cor. iii. 6.
  147: . 3 1 Cor. ii. 4 f.


  • CHAP. V.  ----  What is "much speaking," and what are the "many books"? The whole inspired Scripture is one book. From the Introduction to Volume V. of the Commentaries on John.
  148: . 4 "Not content with the labour of lecturing and collating MSS., Origen composed numerous books. [...]
  149: . 5 Eccles. xii. 12.
  150: . 1 "Nisi primum, plane secundum; si vero secundum, non primum omnino."
  151: . 1 Eccles. xii. 12.
  152: . 2 Prov. x. 19.
  153: . 3 1 Kings iv. 32 f.
  154: . 4 Prov. i. 24.
  155: . 5 Acts xx. 7 f.
  156: . 6 John i. 1.
  157: . 7 Lit., "consisting of many theorems."
  158: . 1 John v. 39.
  159: . 2 Ps. xl. (xxxix.) 7.
  160: . 1 Rev. v. 1 ff.
  161: . 2 Rev. iii. 7.
  162: . 3 Ps. lxix. (lxviii.) 29.
  163: . 4 Dan. vii. 10.
  164: . 5 Ex. xxxii. 32.
  165: . 6 Isa. xxii. 22; cf. Rev. iii. 7.
  166: . 1 Ezek. ii. 10.
  167: . 2 Cf. Rev. x. 10.
  168: . 3 Rom. ii. 16.
  169: . 1 2 Cor. iii. 6.
  170: . 2 Lit., "dictation." According to others, "too boldly give advice."


  • CHAP. VI.  ---- The whole Divine Scripture is one instrument of God, perfect and fitted for its work. From Volume II. of the Commentaries on the Gospel according to Matthew: "Blessed are the peacemakers"
  171: . 3 Matt. v. 9.
  172: . 4 Prov. viii. 8.
  173: . 5 Ps. lxxii. (lxxi.) 7.
  174: . 1 R.V., "The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are the words of the mas[...]
  175: . 2 Eccles. xii. 11.
  176: . 3 Cf. Luke viii. 8.
  177: . 1 1 Sam. xvi. 14.


  • CHAP. VII.  ---- Of the special character of the persons of Divine Scripture. From the small volume on the Song of Songs, which Origen wrote in his youth.
  178: . 2 That is, "treatment."
  179: . 3 "Inconsequence in the connections, abruptness in the transitions."
  180: . 4 A Homily was a popular exposition. Origen's writings were of three kinds ---- tomes, properly s[...]
  181: . 1 Ps. cix. (cviii.) 1, 8.
  182: . 2 Acts i. 16.
  183: . 3 Ex persona Dei. On the prosopopoeia of Scripture, see Schleusner. The verb signifies personas f[...]


  • CHAP. VIII.  ---- That we need not attempt to correct the solecistic phrases of Scripture, and those which are unintelligible according to the letter, seeing that they contain great propriety of thought for those who can understand. From the Commentary on Hosea.
  184: . 4 That is, "inaccurate expressions."
  185: . 5 Hos. xii. 4.
  186: . 1 Gen. ii. 16 f.
  187: . 2 One "thing." Cf. S. John x. 30, and see below.
  188: . 1 1 Cor. x. 17.
  189: . 2 Cf. Eph. iv. 5 f.
  190: . 3 Cf. Rom. xii. 5 ; Gal. iii. 28.
  191: . 4 2 Cor. xi. 2.
  192: . 5 The neuter.
  193: . 6 Cf. John xvii. 11, 21.
  194: . 7 Rom. xii. 5. ; Eph. iv. 25.
  195: . 8 Herm. Vis. xi. 


  • CHAP. IX.  ----  Why it is that the Divine Scripture often uses the same term in different significations, even in the same place. From the Epistle to the Romans, Volume IX. on the words, "What then? Is the law sin?"
  196: . 9 Rom, vii. 7.
  197: . 1 Gal. iii. 10; cf. Deut. xxvii. 26.
  198: . 2 Gal. iii. 19.
  199: . 3 Gal. iii. 24 ff.
  200: . 4 Gal. iv. 21 ff.
  201: . 5 John xv. 25; cf. Ps. xxxv. (xxxiv.) 19.
  202: . 1 1 Cor. xiv. 21; cf. Isa. xxxviii. 11 f.
  203: . 2 Rom. vii. 14.
  204: . 3 Rom. ii. 14f.
  205: . 4 The governing part, or reason. The Stoics taught that the soul had eight parts, the hegemonico[...]
  206: . 5 Rom. v. 13.
  207: . 6 Rom. vii. 7.
  208: . 1 Jolm iv. 35.
  209: . 2 That is, "literal." See above.
  210: . 3 John ix. 39.
  211: . 4 Cf. Rom. iii. 21.
  212: . 5 John i. 18.


  • CHAP. X.  ---- Of things in the Divine Scripture which seem to come near to being a stumbling-block and rock of offence. From the 39th Homily on Jeremiah: "The Lord could not bear because of the evil of your doings"
  213: . 1 Rom. ix. 33; 1 Pet. ii. 7; cf. Isa. viii. 14.
  214: . 2 Rom. ix. 33; cf. Isa. xxviii. 16.
  215: . 3 Matt. xii. 36.
  216: . 1 Cf. Matt. v. 18.


  • CHAP. XI.  ---- That we must seek the nourishment supplied by all inspired Scripture, and not turn from the passages troubled by heretics with ill-advised difficulties, nor slight them; we ought rather to have our share in them without the confusion which attaches to unbelief. From Volume XX. on Ezekiel. "Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I judge between sheep and sheep, as well the rams as the he-goats. Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? And as for my sheep they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet? "
  217: . 1 Ezek. xxxiv. 17 ff.
  218: . 1 Ezek. xxxiv. 19.


  • CHAP. XII.  ---- That a man ought not to faint in reading the Divine Scripture if he cannot comprehend the dark riddles and parables therein. From the 20th Homily on Joshua, the son of Nun.
  219: . 1 Ps. ciii. (cii.) 1.
  220: . 2 1 Cor. xiv. 14.
  221: . 1 Cf. Matt. ix. 29.
  222: . 2 Cf. 2 Tim. iii. 16.


  • CHAP. XIII.  ----  When and to whom the lessons of philosophy may be profitable, in the explanation of the sacred Scriptures, with Scripture proof. The letter to Gregory.
  223: . 1 Gregory Thaumaturgus, so called from his miracles, converted by Origen about 234 A.D., afterwa[...]
  224: . 2 Ex. xi. 2; xii. 35 f.
  225: . 3 Lit., "things received," viz. "in the Mount," Ex. xxv. 40, etc.
  226: . 1 Ex. xxvii. 16.
  227: . 2 1 Kings xi. 14 ff. In the text, Ader (accurately, Eder, 1 Chron. viii. 15).
  228: . 1 1 Kings xii. 28 f., Jeroboam.
  229: . 2 John x. 3.
  230: . 3 Matt. vii. 7; Luke xi. 9.
  231: . 1 Heb. iii. 14.


  • CHAP. XIV.  ---- They who wish to rightly understand the Divine Scriptures must of necessity be acquainted with the logical principles adapted to their use; without these they cannot conceive the exact meaning of the thoughts expressed, as they should do. From Volume III. of the Commentaries on Genesis.
  232: . 2 Gen. i. 16 ff.
  233: . 3 "In principatum."
  234: . 4 "Ut proeessent." In Greek the Infinitive.
  235: . 5 "In potestatem."
  236: . 6 "Ut potestatem habeant."
  237: . 1 John v. 19.
  238: . 2 John i. 29.
  239: . 1 2 Cor. v. 19.
  240: . 2 Lit., "distinction of points, or stops."
  241: . 1 I take this to be Origen's meaning. Cf. Westcott, Introduction to the Gospel of St. John, p. 5[...]
  242: . 1 1 Cor. ii. 4 f.
  243: . 2 Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 4.
  244: . 3 "Sermonis gratia allicere ad obsequium: sicut veteres in ore Herculis aureas catenas finxerunt,[...]
  245: . 4 Ps. lxviii. (lxvii.) 12.
  246: . 1 Plat. Ep. vii. 341 C, D.
  247: . 2 Rom. i. 19.
  248: . 3 Cf. Rom. i. .18 ff.
  249: . 4 Plat. Ep., ibid.
  250: . 1 Cf. Plat. Rep. i. 327, A.
  251: . 2 Cf. Plat. Phaedo, 118, A.
  252: . 3 "Noumena" as opposed to "phoenomena."
  253: . 4 Rom. i. 25.
  254: . 5 1 Cor. i. 27 ff.
  255: . 1 Or, "Word = Scripture."
  256: . 2 Cf. Plat. Ep. vii. 341 C, D.
  257: . 3 Hos. x. 12.
  258: . 4 John i. 4, 9.
  259: . 5 Cf. Matt. v. 14.
  260: . 6 2 Cor. iv. 6.
  261: . 7 Ps. xxvii. (xxvi.) 1.
  262: . 8 Ps. cxix. (cxviii.) 105.
  263: . 9 Ps. iv. 7.
  264: . 10 Ps. xxxvi. (xxxv.) 10.
  265: . 11 Isa. lx. 1,
  266: . 12 Matt. iv. 16,
  267: . 1 Cf. Isa. ix. 2.
  268: . 2 Cf. Matt, xxv. 4.
  269: . 3 Plato, Crito, 49 B.
  270: . 1 1 Cor. ii. 5; cf. i. 26; 2 Cor. i. 12.
  271: . 1 Luke vi. 29.
  272: . 2 Matt. v. 40.
  273: . 3 Isa. liii. 1 ff.
  274: . 1 Sept. paidi/on. Heb. Sugens = tenera planta. ---- Schleusner.
  275: . 2 Ps. xlv. (xliv.) 4 f.
  276: . 3 Cf. Matt. xvii. 1 f.
  277: . 4 Luke ix. 30 f.
  278: . 5 Isa. liii. 2.
  279: . 1 Or, "the prophecy," viz. in Ps. xlv. above referred to.
  280: . 2 "Demiurge."
  281: . 3 Cf. Matt. xvii. 6.
  282: . 1 Or, forms."
  283: . 2 "The Divine Word," introducing a quotation from St. Paul, is found in Theophilus of Antioch as[...]
  284: . 3 Cf. Matt. xvii. 1.
  285: . 4 See Cont. Cels. vi. 68, "Caused us to ascend to the lofty mountain of His Word," etc.
  286: . 5 Isa. liii. 2 f.
  287: . 6 1 Cor. i. 21.
  288: . 7 Matt, xvi. 18. 
  289: . 8 Ps. ix. (viii.), 14.
  290: . 9 Cf. Mark iii. 1.
  291: . 1 Matt. i. 1.
  292: . 2 John xxi. 25.
  293: . 3 Cf. 2 Cor. xii. 2 ff.
  294: . 4 John i. 1.
  295: . 5 Phil. ii. 7.
  296: . 6 In the Apocalypse (xix. 13) the "Word of God" is a title of the Son of God.
  297: . 7 John i. 14.
  298: . 1 Cf. John xiii. 25; Matt. xvii. 1. 
  299: . 2 Cf. John i. 14.
  300: . 3 1 Cor. ii. 7.


  • CHAP. XVI.  ---- Concerning those who slander Christianity on account of the heresies in the Church. Book III. against Celsus.
  301: . 1 The Dogmatici, Empirici, Methodici, Pneumatici, Eclectici, etc.
  302: . 1 1 Cor. xi. 19.
  303: . 2 Cf. Rom. iii. 29.
  304: . 3 2 Tim. i. 3.
  305: . 1 Tertullian called those who rejected the Montanist view Psychici, that is, animal or carnal: w[...]
  306: . 2 Cor. iv. 12f.
  307: . 3 Tit. iii. 10 f.
  308: . 4 Matt. v. 9.
  309: . 5 Matt. v. 5.


  • CHAP. XVII.  ---- A reply to certain philosophers who say that it makes no difference whether we call Him Who is God over All by the name Zeus, current among the Greeks, or by that which is used by Indians, for instance, or. Egyptians. Books I. and V. against Celsus.
  310: . 1 De Interp. Bk. i. part 1, chap. 2. See also Plato, Cratylus. Hermogenes, one of the speakers, [...]
  311: . 2 According to Epicurus words, were formed originally, not by an arbitrary, but by a natural pro[...]
  312: . 1 The Brahmans were the hereditary priests of the Indian Theosophists. The Samaneans were picked [...]
  313: . 2 "Demiurge."
  314: . 3 Lit., "after ": the names being given after the demons. See L. and Sc.
  315: . 1 "Demiurge."
  316: . 2 Plat. Phileb. 12 B, C.
  317: . 3 That is, "Zeus."
  318: . 1 Lit., "If we translate into Greek him that was originally called (or invoked)," etc.
  319: . 2 The point of the passage appears to be the difference between translation and transliteration. [...]
  320: . 1 Cf. Plat. Phileb. 12 B, C.


  • CHAP. XVIII.  ---- A reply to those Greek philosophers who profess to know everything, and blame the simple faith of the man of Christians; and complain that they prefer folly to wisdom in life; moreover, that no wise or educated man has become a disciple of Jesus; but boatmen and tax-gatherers of the lowest class, they say, get fools and blockheads, slaves, weak women and children, to submit themselves to the Gospel. Books I. and III. against Celsus.
  321: . 1 See Clem. Aleu., Exhortation to the Heathen, chap. 2. "The token of the Sabazian mysteries to t[...]
  322: . 2 "From her being an infernal divinity, she came to be regarded as a spectral being, who sent at[...]
  323: . 1 Or, "since probability is the guide of human life."
  324: . 1 1 Cor. iii. 18 f.
  325: . 2 Others translate, "and that it was only in certain circumstances that the latter course was de[...]
  326: . 1 1 Cor. i. 21.
  327: . 2 Lit., "Arrangement of the offer (of the Gospel"), as opposed to the matter."
  328: . 3 1 Cor. ii. 4 f.
  329: . 1 Matt. iv. 19.
  330: . 2 1 Cor. ii. 4.
  331: . 3 Ps. lxviii. (lxvii.) 12 f.
  332: . 4 Jerome ---- "Dominus dabit verbum Evangelizantibus virtute multa, Rex virtutum Dilecti."
  333: . 5 Ps. cxlvii. 15.
  334: . 6 Cf. Ps. xix. (xviii.) 5.
  335: . 1 Matt. ix. 37 f.
  336: . 2 Ep. Barn. v. 9.
  337: . 3 Luke v. 8.
  338: . 4 1 Tim. i. 15.
  339: . 1 Tit. iii. 3 ff.
  340: . 2 Ps. cvii. (cvi.) 20.
  341: . 1 Matt. x. 23.
  342: . 2 John xiv. 6.
  343: . 3 John viii. 40.
  344: . 4 Others, "Be led by human guidance to keep out of the way of dangers."
  345: . 1 Cf. Gen. xix. 11.
  346: . 2 "Proprie." ---- Bp. Bull.
  347: . 3 1 Cor. i. 24.
  348: . 1 Matt. v. 28.
  349: . 2 Or, "the 'word' of Christians." See below.
  350: . 3 PS. li. (l.)8.
  351: . 4 Cf. 2 Chron. i. 10.
  352: . 5 1 Kings x. 1 ff.
  353: . 1 1 Kings iv. 29 ff.
  354: . 2 "Problems."
  355: . 3 Hos. xiv. 9.
  356: . 4 Dan. i. 20.
  357: . 5 Ezek. xxviii. 3.
  358: . 6 Mark iv. 11, 34.
  359: . 7 Matt. xxiii. 34.
  360: . 1 1 Cor. xii. 8 ff.
  361: . 2 Acts vii. 11.
  362: . 3 Ex. vii. 22.
  363: . 4 Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 6.
  364: . 1 Rom. i. 21.
  365: . 2 Rom. i. 19 ff.
  366: . 3 Or, "spiritual."
  367: . 4 1 Cor. i. 26 ff.
  368: . 5 Cf. Tit. i. 9.
  369: . 1 Cf. 1 Tim. iii. 2.
  370: . 2 1 Tim. iv. 10.
  371: . 3 1 John ii. 2.
  372: . 1 Others see an allusion to the jugglers in the market-places, and render, "performing their dis[...]
  373: . 1 For the Catechumens (instructed privately without the Church), the Hearers (so called from the[...]
  374: . 1 The Catechumens were treated with more moderation than others, because "their sins were commit[...]
  375: . 2 1 Cor. iii. 2 f.
  376: . 3 Heb. v. 12ff.
  377: . 1 Cf. Rom. i. 14.
  378: . 2 Prov. viii. 5.
  379: . 3 Prov. ix. 4ff., 16.
  380: . 1 Or, "Ye Greeks, it seems, may invite, etc. . . . and yet, if we do so, there is no motive of h[...]
  381: . 2 The Athenian legislator, born about 638 B.C.
  382: . 3 The Spartan legislator, probably about 800 B.C.
  383: . 4 The Locrian legislator, the date of his legislation is assigned to 660 B.C. His code is said t[...]
  384: . 5 1 Cor. i. 27.
  385: . 6 Rom. i. 22 f.


  • CHAP. XIX.  ---- And again, earlier in the same book, Origen says, That our faith in our Lord has nothing in common with the irrational superstitious faith of the Gentiles, and that it is both commendable, and accords with the original moral notions of mankind. In answer also to those who say, How do we think that Jesus is God seeing that He had a mortal body?
  386: . 1 Antinous was the favourite of the Emperor Hadrian. He was drowned in the Nile, 122 A.D. Hadrian[...]
  387: . 2 This is explained below, "Men are more or less fortunate in their beliefs."
  388: . 1 Lit., "Faith having first taken possession of us produces such an assent, or submission, to Je[...]
  389: . 2 Or, "piety."
  390: . 1 Waterland says, "It is difficult to express the full force of this passage in English."


  • CHAP. XX.  ---- A reply to those who say that the whole world, including man, was made not for man, but for the irrational creatures; for the irrational creatures live with less toil than men; further, that they are wiser than we are, and are both dear to God, and have a conception of God, and foreknow the future; wherein we shall also oppose transmigration of souls, and have something to say concerning augury and the trickery connected with it. From Book IV. against Celsus.
  391: . 1 Lat., secundae.
  392: . 2 Grasses, or any plants that bear leaves and seeds from the root.
  393: . 1 Or, "roots."
  394: . 2 Ps. civ. (ciii.) 14 f.
  395: . 3 Ecclus. xxxix. 21 17.
  396: . 4 Cf. Hom. Od. ix. 109.
  397: . 1 Others, "that it was only the things on earth which underwent deluges and conflagrations, and [...]
  398: . 2 See Plato, Legg. 677 B.
  399: . 3 Hesiod.
  400: . 4 Or, "assemblies."
  401: . 1 Or, "destroy their useful doctrines, and at the same time the agreement of Christianity and ph[...]
  402: . 1 Admit them among rational creatures?
  403: . 1 Ecclus. xvi. 27, "He garnished his works for ever." Wisd. xi. 20, "Thou hast ordered all thing[...]
  404: . 1 Cf. Gen. i. 26.
  405: . 1 "Logos, or Word."
  406: . 2 Prov. xxx. 24 ff. (xxiv. 59 ff.).
  407: . 3 John xvi. 25.
  408: . 1 Or, "have certain sacred modes of converse with one another." 
  409: . 2 Circ. 544 B.C. Generally regarded as the teacher of Pythagoras.
  410: . 1 Ps. xlix. (xlviii.) 12, 20.
  411: . 1 The conjectural reading.
  412: . 2 Iliad, ii. 308 ff. (Lord Derby's translation).
  413: . 1 Hom. Il. xii. 200 ff.
  414: . 2 Hom. Il. ii. 309.
  415: . 3 Cf. Hom. Od. xv. 526.
  416: . 1 Cf. Lev. xi.
  417: . 2 John xii. 31; 2 Cor. iv. 4.
  418: . 1 Cf. Hom. Od. iv. 685, xx. 116, 119.
  419: . 2 Hom. Od. xx. 120.
  420: . 3 Cf. Hom. Od. xvii. 541 ff. 
  421: . 4 Lev. xix. 26.
  422: . 1 Deut, xviii. 14; cf. 12.
  423: . 2 Deut, xviii. 15.
  424: . 3 Num. xxiii. 23.
  425: . 4 Prov. iv. 23.
  426: . 5 Cf. 2 Cor. iv. 6.
  427: . 6 Cf. Rom. viii. 14.
  428: . 1 Ex. xxiv. 2.
  429: . 1 Or, "complete and perfect in all respects." 
  430: . 1 See Chap. xxi. 2, "promptings to the contemplation of virtue and vice."


  • CHAP. XXI.  ---- Of Free Will, with an explanation and interpretation of those sayings of Scripture which seem to destroy it; such as the following: ---- a. "The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh."  b. "I will take away their stony hearts, and will give them hearts of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances." c. "That seeing they may not see, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them." d. "It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy." e. "It is of God both to will and to do" f."So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth."
  431: . 1 Or, "is included in."
  432: . 2 Inanimate nature.
  433: . 3 Animate nature. Lit., "by nature and a soul." Cf. Arist. Nic. Eth. Bk. III. c. 1, "The man act[...]
  434: . 1 Lit., "out of."
  435: . 2 So Rufinus explains "phantasy," voluntas vel sensus. 
  436: . 3 Or, "speaking generally." Others translate, "the greater part of the nature assigned to all th[...]
  437: . 1 Rufinus ---- "naturalem corporis intemperiem."
  438: . 1 See Ellicott on 1 Tim. ii. 2, "Decency and propriety of deportment."
  439: . 2 Mic. vi. 8.
  440: . 3 Deut. xxx. 19.
  441: . 4 Isa. i. 19. 
  442: . 5 Ps. lxxxi. (lxxx.) 13 f.
  443: . 6 Matt. v. 39.
  444: . 1 Matt. v. 22.
  445: . 2 Matt. v. 28.
  446: . 3 Matt. vii. 24, 26.
  447: . 4 Matt. xxv. 34 f.
  448: . 5 Matt. xxv. 41. .
  449: . 6 Rom. ii. 4 ff.
  450: . 1 Ex. iv. 21, vii. 3.
  451: . 2 Ex. xi. 19 f.
  452: . 3 Mark iv. 20 ; cf. Luke viii. 10.
  453: . 4 Rom. ix. 16.
  454: . 5 Cf. Phil. ii. 13.
  455: . 1 Rom. ix. 18 f.
  456: . 2 R.V. "This persuasion came not of him that calleth you."
  457: . 3 Cf. Gal. v. 8.
  458: . 4 Rom. ix. 20 f.
  459: . 5 Rom. ix. 18.
  460: . 1 Cf. Ex. iv. 23, ix. 17.
  461: . 2 Cf. Ex. xii. 12.
  462: . 1 According to others, "If any one should stand, declaring with uncovered head that the Creator [...]
  463: . 2 Heb. vi. 7 f.
  464: . 1 The word denotes the deliberate selection of a course of conduct.
  465: . 2 Others, "as regards the point in question."
  466: . 3 Cf. Ex. viii. 28.
  467: . 4 Rom. ii. 4 f.
  468: . 1 Isa. lxiii. 17 f.
  469: . 2 Jer. xx. 7.
  470: . 3 Isa. lxiii. 17.
  471: . 4 Sus. 42.
  472: . 1 Cf. Luke xiv. 11.
  473: . 2 Cf. Matt. xi. 25; 1 Cor. i. 29.
  474: . 3 Others, "he that is abandoned is abandoned to the Divine judgment."
  475: . 1 Matt. xiii. 5 f.
  476: . 2 Or, "applied"; lit. "cast upon."
  477: . 3 That is, "check the growth."
  478: . 1 Or, "to us," that is, "in our opinion."
  479: . 2 Wisd. vii. 16.
  480: . 3 Cf. Ex. vii. 14 ; Rom. ix. 18.
  481: . 4 Ezek. xi. 19, 20.
  482: . 1 Mark iv. 11 f.
  483: . 1 "Demiurge."
  484: . 1 Sus. 42.
  485: . 2 Lit., "helping them does not help."
  486: . 3 Cf. Mark iv. 11.
  487: . 1 Cf. Matt. xi. 21.
  488: . 2 Lit., "the things of those without."
  489: . 3 Or, "in addition to our inquiring."
  490: . 1 Rom. ix. 16.
  491: . 2 Or, "the 'furniture' which God gave them for life." Cf. Eur. Supp. 214.
  492: . 3 Or, "deliberate purpose."
  493: . 4 The same phrase as in Chap. xviii. 26.
  494: . 1 Rom. ix. 15.
  495: . 2 Or, "Degrees."
  496: . 3 Ps. cxxvii. (cxxvi.) 1 f.
  497: . 4 Cf. Phil. iii. 14.
  498: . 5 Rom. ix. 16.
  499: . 6 1 Cor. iii. 6f.
  500: . 1 Or, "our own free will." 
  501: . 2 Cf. Phil. ii. 13.
  502: . 1 Rom. ix. 18 ff.
  503: . 1 2 Cor. xii. 21.
  504: . 2 2 Tim. i. 16 ff.
  505: . 3 2 Cor. v. 10.
  506: . 4 2 Tim. ii. 20 f.
  507: . 1 Either (a) God's foreknowledge of man's efforts, or (b) the soul's conduct in a prior state of[...]
  508: . 2 Rom. ix. 20.
  509: . 3 Ex. xix. 19.
  510: . 1 Rom. ix. 19.
  511: . 2 Rom. ix. 20.
  512: . 3 That is, "soul natures, perishing or being saved." Rufinus ---- "Diversas animarum naturas." [...]
  513: . 4 2 Tim. ii. 21.
  514: . 1 Rom. ix. 21.


  • CHAP. XXII.  ----  What is the dispersion on earth of rational, that is, human souls, indicated under a veil in the building of the tower, and the confusion of tongues thereat? Wherein we shall also treat of many lords set over the dispersed according to their condition. From Book v. against Celsus.
  515: . 1 The Greek word occurs in 2 Macc. iii. 39, vii. 35, 3 Macc. ii. 21. Schleusner gives inspector [...]
  516: . 2 The ruling spirits.
  517: . 1 The same word as above. See Huetii Origeniana, lib. ii. c. ii. quaest. v. 26, "De angelis tute[...]
  518: . 1 Explained above.
  519: . 1 Sophrosune, "Perfected self-mastery."
  520: . 1 Deut. xxxii. 8 f.
  521: . 2 Gen. xi. 1 ff.
  522: . 3 Wisd. x. 5.
  523: . 4 Tob. xii. 7.
  524: . 1 Cf. Matt. vii. 6.
  525: . 2 Wisd. i. 4.
  526: . 3 See Chap. i. (heading) for "invented history."
  527: . 4 Gen. xi. 3.
  528: . 5 Cf. Gen. xi. 4.
  529: . 1 Cf. Deut. xxxii. 9.
  530: . 1 Cf. Rom. i. 28, 26, 24.
  531: . 2 Cf. Gal. i. 4.
  532: . 3 Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 6.
  533: . 1 Ps. ii. 8.
  534: . 2 Gen. xlix. 10.


  • CHAP. XXIII.  ---- Of Fate, and how though God foreknows the conduct of every one, human responsibility remains the same. Further, how the stars are not productive of human affairs, but merely indicate them; further, that men cannot attain to an accurate knowledge of these things, but that the signs are set by Divine powers; what is the cause of the signs. Astrology seems to have some elements of truth. From Book III. of the Commentaries on Genesis, "And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years."
  535: . 3 See the De Princip. Bk. i. c. 7, s. 3. It was Origen's belief that the stars were living being[...]
  536: . 1 Eumque rerum istarum fontem esse ac principium esse negabunt. ---- Viger.
  537: . 2 "Demiurge." But Waterland (i. p. 383, Ox. 1843) says "the three words texni/thj, dhmiourgo_j, [...]
  538: . 1 Gen. i. 14.
  539: . 1 Sus. 42 f.
  540: . 2 1 Kings xii. 32.
  541: . 3 1 Kings xiii. 1 ff.
  542: . 4 1 Kings xiii. 5.
  543: . 5 Reading u(pakou~sai. See Schleusner.
  544: . 6 Lit. "strength."
  545: . 1 Isa. xlv. ff.
  546: . 2 Cf. Dan. ii. 37 ff.
  547: . 3 R.V. "the river." "The Eulaeus was a large artificial canal some 900 feet broad, of which trace[...]
  548: . 1 Dan. viii. 5 ff.
  549: . 2 Luke xxi. 20.
  550: . 1 Ps. cix. (cviii.) 12, 16 f.
  551: . 1 Or, "giving an oracular response."
  552: . 2 Or, "common moral notions." 
  553: . 3 Jer. xxvi. (xxxiii.) 3.
  554: . 1 Ex. iv. 11. R.V. "Dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind."
  555: . 1 Ps. cix. (cviii.) ff.
  556: . 2 Ps. cix. (cviii.) 16.
  557: . 3 Eur. Phoen. 18 ff.
  558: . 1 Cf. John ii. 25.
  559: . 1 Matt. xxvi. 23.
  560: . 2 Viger ---- singularem horam. Of birth?
  561: . 1 Or, "productive." How we are to tell when the stars are causative, and when they are merely in[...]
  562: . 2 Cf. Test. Aser, 7.
  563: . 3 Isa. xxxiv. 4.
  564: . 1 Gen. i. 14.
  565: . 2 Jer. x. 2.
  566: . 1 Following ABC; Viger, "vel leviter haerere."
  567: . 2 Eusebius, "shooting stars."
  568: . 1 "Twelfth part."
  569: . 2 "Thinkable, intelligible." Viger ---- "quod mente percipitur."
  570: . 3 "Contemperatio."
  571: . 1 "A mathematician (i.e. astrologer) can indeed indicate the desire which a malignant power prod[...]
  572: . 2 Isa. xlvii. 13.
  573: . 3 Cf. Test. Aser., 7. 
  574: . 4 2 Cor. xii. 4.
  575: . 1 Wisd. viii. 18.
  576: . 2 "The fire of God." See 2 Esd. iv. 1, 36, v. 20, x. 28 In the second of these passages he is ca[...]
  577: . 1 Rom. ix. 17.
  578: . 2 Cf. Ex. ix. 16.
  579: . 3 Cf. Heb. i. 14.
  580: . 4 Lit., "take."
  581: . 1 For the story of Clement being appointed S. Peter's attendant, for the doings at Laodicea, and [...]
  582: . 2 That is, the travels of S. Peter.
  583: . 3 In popular language mathematici was the exclusive name for astrologers, who were so called fro[...]
  584: . 4 Had returned at the end of its cycle.
  585: . 1 From the point of opposition.
  586: . 2 From the centre (mid-heaven).
  587: . 3 Through the kindness of the Rev. P. H. Kempthorne I am favoured by E. Walter Maunder, Esq., F.[...]
  588: . 4 Lit., "unconnected with."
  589: . 5 In an (ill-omened) "house." 
  590: . 6 Lit. "not conjoined."
  591: . 7 Perhaps, the Zodiac. Others translate, "the circle is equally complete in every part." Possibl[...]


  • CHAP. XXIV.  ---- Matter is not uncreated, or the cause of evil. From Book VII. of the Praeparatio Evangelica of Eusebius of Palestine.
  592: . 1 See Plat. Gorg. 506 E. Another rendering is "in things unordered."
  593: . 1 Viger ---- "Si ex rerum genitarum ortu atque natura in eam te mentem adductum esse diceres, id [...]
  594: . 1 "Are spontaneous" does not quite convey the meaning, because the architect is supposed to crea[...]
  595: . 1 "Demiurge."
  596: . 1 The word denotes the mixing of two things, so that they are blended and form a compound, as in [...]
  597: . 2 The word denotes mixing, as of two sorts of grain ---- mechanical mixture.
  598: . 1 See Robinson, p. xli. et seq


  • CHAP. XXV.  ---- That the "separation" which arises from foreknowledge does not do away with Free Will. From Book I. of the Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, at the words "separated unto the gospel of God."
  599: . 2 Rom. i. 1.
  600: . 3 Gal. i. 15 f.
  601: . 1 Ps. Iviii. (Ivii.) 3.
  602: . 2 Rom. viii. 28 ff.
  603: . 3 Or, predestination, and so throughout.
  604: . 4 For salvation or perdition.
  605: . 1 Rom. viii. 29.
  606: . 2 Cf. Col. i. 15.
  607: . 3 According to Origen, God created a finite number of souls to begin with; they were all equal, [...]
  608: . 4 Cf. Sus. 42.
  609: . 1 Rom. viii. 28 f.
  610: . 1 Matt. xxv. 21, 23.
  611: . 2 Matt. xxv. 26 f.
  612: . 3 Matt. xxv. 34 f.
  613: . 4 Matt. xxv. 41 f.
  614: . 5 Rom. i. 1.
  615: . 6 Gal. i. 15.
  616: . 1 1 Cor. ix. 27.
  617: . 2 1 Cor. ix. 16.
  618: . 3 2 Cor. xi. 2:3 ff.
  619: . 4 Cf. Rom. v. 3 f.


  • CHAP. XXVI.  ---- Of the question of things "good"and "evil"; that they partly depend on our own efforts and partly do not; and (that) according to the teaching of Christ, but not as Aristotle thinks. From the treatise on the 4th Psalm, at the words, "Many say, who will show us the good things?"
  620: . 1 Or, on "purpose," "choice," or "deliberate preference," which is a part of the voluntary, but [...]
  621: . 2 Ps. iv. 6.
  622: . 3 "Does happiness come from self? Is it a thing that can be learned, or acquired by habituation [...]
  623: . 4 Making happiness a mere external thing.
  624: . 5 Making happiness = internal good, "living well and doing well."
  625: . 1 Matt. xxv. 21, 23.
  626: . 2 Luke vi. 45.
  627: . 1 Ex. xv. 20.
  628: . 2 Deut. xxviii. 58 ff.
  629: . 3 Lev. xxvi. 16.
  630: . 4 Cf. Deut. xxxii. 24.
  631: . 5 "Opisthonia, tetanic recurvation; Pliny's dolor (cervicum) inflexibilis."
  632: . 1 Lev. xxvi. 3 ff.
  633: . 2 Deut. xxviii. 1 ff.
  634: . 3 Sept., "remainders," from misunderstanding the Heb. root.
  635: . 4 Deut. xxviii. 16 ff.
  636: . 5 Cf. Matt. iv. 23, ix. 35.
  637: . 1 Cf. Matt. iv. 24.
  638: . 2 "Demiurge."
  639: . 3 Cf. 1 Kings xvii. 8 f.
  640: . 4 Cf. 2 Kings iv. 8 ff., xiii. 14.
  641: . 5 Cf. Isa. xx. 3.
  642: . 6 Cf. Jer. xxxviii. (xlv.) 6, ix. 2.
  643: . 7 Cf. Matt. iii. 4.
  644: . 1 Cf. Rom. v. 3.
  645: . 2 Cf. 2 Cor. iv. 8 f., iv. 9 f.
  646: . 3 Ps. xxxiv. (lxxxiii.) 19.
  647: . 4 Job xl. 3.
  648: . 1 Cf. Rom. viii. 28.
  649: . 2 Cf. Deut. xv. 6.
  650: . 3 Some MSS. omit "the righteous man."
  651: . 4 Ps. xv. (xiv.) 5.
  652: . 5 Cf. Exek. xviii. 8.
  653: . 6 Prov. xiii. 8.
  654: . 7 Isa. i. 6.
  655: . 1 "Happiness," according to Aristotle, "combines the good, the noble, the pleasurable; and thoug[...]
  656: . 2 Ps. cxxvii. (cxxvi.) 1.
  657: . 1 Cf. Ezek. xxviii. 15.
  658: . 2 Cf. Isa. xiv. 12.
  659: . 3 Cf. Rom. ix. 16.
  660: . 4 Ps. iv. 6.
  661: . 5 Job ii. 10.
  662: . 1 Mic. i. 12 ; cf. Jer. xvii. 27.


  • CHAP. XXVII.  ---- The meaning of the Lord's hardening Pharaoh's heart.
  663: . 2 Ex. x. 27.
  664: . 3 Ex. vii. 3.
  665: . 1 "Demiurge."
  666: . 2 Rom. ix. 18.
  667: . 3 Sound.
  668: . 1 Ex. x. 27.
  669: . 2 Cf. Ex. iv. 23.
  670: . 1 Rom. ix. 18.
  671: . 1 Ex. x. 27.
  672: . 2 Hos. iv. 14.
  673: . 1 Ex. vii. 3.
  674: . 2 Cf. Matt. vii. 8.
  675: . 3 Ex. xii. 38.
  676: . 1 Ps. xxxii. (xxxi.) 10.
  677: . 2 Prov. iii. 12.
  678: . 3 Ps. lxxxix. (lxxxviii.) 30 ff.
  679: . 4 Cf. Hos. iv. 14.
  680: . 5 Cf. Ezek. xxiv. 13.
  681: . 6 Ezek. vii. 27, et passim.
  682: . 1 Ex. vii. 5.
  683: . 2 2 Macc. vi. 12 ff.
  684: . 3 3 Kings ii. 6.
  685: . 4 The Jew ---- probably a Rabbi, whom Origen employed to teach him Hebrew. Cf. De Princip. i. 3,[...]
  686: . 1 Ps. vi. 1, xxxviii. (xxxvii.) 1.
  687: . 2 Luke xii. 40.
  688: . 3 Cf. Acts v. 4.
  689: . 4 Acts xiii. 10 f.
  690: . 1 Cf. 1 Tim. i. 20.
  691: . 2 1 Cor. v. 5.
  692: . 3 Ex. x. 27.
  693: . 4 Deut. viii. 2 f.
  694: . 1 Job xl. 8.
  695: . 2 Rom. ii. 4 ff.
  696: . 3 Rom. ix. 22.
  697: . 1 John ix. 39.
  698: . 2 Luke ii. 34.
  699: . 3 Luke x. 13 ff.
  700: . 1 Ex. iv. 22 f.
  701: . 2 "Demiurge."
  702: . 3 Ex. x. 27.
  703: . 4 Ex. iv. 23.
  704: . 5 Ex. x. 3.
  705: . 1 Ex. ix. 29 f.
  706: . 2 Cant. i. 5, 6.
  707: . 3 Ex. i. 14.
  708: . 4 Lit., "make muddy."
  709: . 5 Cf. Ex. ii. 23 f.


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