This volume completes the first English translation of Rufinus's
Latin version of Origen of Alexandria's Commentary on the Epistle
to the Romans and contains Origen's detailed exegesis of Romans
6:12-16:27. Origen's much neglected Commentary, which stands out in
splendid isolation at the fountainhead of Greek and Latin exegesis,
is now completely accessible to English readers. In Books 6-10
Origen carries through to completion his programme, begun in Books
1-5, of defending human freedom and of opposing the natural
predestinarian doctrine of the sects founded by the Gnostic
heretics Marcion, Valentinus, and Basilides. These schools relied
heavily on texts from Paul, interpreted in isolation from the rest
of Scripture, not only to deny free will but to support the
doctrine that salvation is determined by the nature one receives at
birth, whether good or evil. In contrast Origen clarifies passages
in Romans by citations from Paul's other letters, from the Gospels,
and from the Old Testament. He attempts to construct a coherent and
unified ""biblical theology."" Origen views human beings as chosen
or rejected by God deservedly; everyone has it within his own power
whether he becomes a servant of God or of sin, a vessel of wrath or
of mercy. Whether one sympathises with Origen's interpretations or
finds them infuriating, it is difficult not to admire his
concordance-like mind at work as he tackles the apostle Paul's
greatest epistle. Readers will find interesting and
thought-provoking discussions of all the important theological
themes and terms of Romans: faith, hope, love, works,
justification, election, law, Israel, Gentiles, Church, sin, death,
flesh, body, glory, etc. The importance of these discussions is
magnified by the fact that they stand alone in their detail and
breadth and stem from the Church's most important theologian of the
third century. Moreover, because Origen's work was productive in
subsequent centuries in Rufinus's Latin translation, the Commentary
is of outstanding importance for the history of New Testament
exegesis.
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