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Homilies on Genesis and Exodus - Vol. 71 (Paperback)
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Homilies on Genesis and Exodus - Vol. 71 (Paperback)
Series: Fathers of the Church Series
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Origen, son of the martyr Leonides, oldest in a family of seven
children was born probably at Alexandria 184/85 and died probably
in Tyre 253/54 after imprisonment and torture during the Decian
persecution. Surnamed "man of steel" Origen was an outstanding
theologian of the early Greek-speaking Church, a man of the virtue
and a genius with a prodigious capacity for work, an excellent
teacher to whose lectures students flocked "and did not give him
time to breathe for one bath of pupils after another kept
frequenting from morn till night his lecture-room" (Eusebius, H.E.
6, 15). As an author Origen surpasses all the writers of the Early
Church in literary output. A list complied by Eusebius, now
unfortunately lost, credited Origen with some 2000 books. Even a
far shorter list known to St. Jerome and mentioned by him in his
Letter To Paula giving the number of 786 works is still impressive.
Jerome then goes on to add some reflections. "Do you see the Greeks
and Latins outstripped by the work of one man? Who could ever read
all that he wrote? What reward did he receive for this exertion? He
is condemned by bishop Demetrius; except for the bishops of
Palestine, Arabia, Phoenicia and Achaia the world concurs in his
condemnation. Rome itself convokes an assembly against this man not
because of novelty of teachings, not because of heresy as now mad
dogs pretend against him, but because they could not bear the fame
of his eloquence and learning and were considered speechless when
he spoke". (Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum, vol.54,
pp.253-59) . Origen's chief aim was to be an interpreter of the
Scriptures. To this end he composed scientific commentaries on
various books of the Old and New Testaments, homilies, and short
exegetical notes. The translations presented here belong to the
second category. Though he did not reject the literal sense of
Scripture Origen here is more intent upon the spiritual meanings of
passages selected from Genesis and Exodus.
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