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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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• Select Bibliography(p. vii)
• Abbreviations(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Homilies on Genesis: (in Genesim Homiliae)(p. 45)
• Homily I (p. 47)
• Homily II (p. 72)
• Homily III on the Circumcision of Abraham(p. 89)
• Homily IV on That Which is Written: """"God Appeared to Abraham""""(p. 103)
• Homily V on Lot and His Daughters(p. 112)
• Homily VI On Abimelech, King of the Philistines: How He Wished to Take Sara in Marriage(p. 121)
• Homily VII (p. 127)
• Homily VIII on the Fact That Abraham Offered His Son Isaac(p. 136)
• Homily IX (p. 148)
• Homily X (p. 157)
• Homily XI on the Fact That Abraham Took Cetura as a Wife and That Isaac Dwelt at the Well of Vision(p. 168)
• Homily XII on Rebecca's Pregnancy and Giving Birth(p. 176)
• Homily XIII (p. 185)
• Homily XIV (p. 196)
• Homily XV (p. 203)
• Homily XVI (p. 214)
• Homilies on Exodus (in Exodum Homiliae)(p. 225)
• Homily I (p. 227)
• Homily II on the Midwives and the Birth of Moses(p. 239)
• Homily III on That Which is Written: """"I Am Feeble in Speech and Slow in Tongue.""""(p. 248)
• Homily IV on the Ten Plagues with Which Egypt Was Smit10(p. 260)
• Homily V on the Departure of the Children of Israel(p. 275)
• Homily VI (p. 285)
• Homily VII on the Bitterness of the Water of Mara(p. 300)
• Homily VIII on the Beginning of the Decalogue(p. 316)
• Homily IX on the Tabernacle(p. 334)
• Homily X on the Woman with Child Who Miscarried Because of Two Quarreling Men(p. 346)
• Homily XI on the Thirst of the People in Raphidim and on the War with the Amalechites and the Assistance of Jethro(p. 355)
• Homily XII on the Glorified Countenance of Moses and on the Veil Which He Placed on His Face(p. 367)
• Homily XIII on Those Objects Which Are Offered for the Tabernacle(p. 375)
• Appendix the Interpretation of Names in the Genesis and Exodus Homilies(p. 389)
• Indices(p. 399)

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Origen is the foremost member of the School of Alexandria, the first school of genuinely philosophical Christian theology. His Platonism is of an older form, uninfluenced by the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, so his philosophy is quite distinct from that of Augustine of Hippo on a number of issues, but especially on the issue of original sin and freedom of will and on the justification of God's permitting evil in the world. Origen became a center of controversy because of his contention that even the Devil would in the end return to God, and he seems to have held that a person enjoys as many successive lives on earth as are needed to return to God after the Fall. However, all matters concerning the interpretation of his thought are controversial. The other members of the school are Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.213) and Irenaeus of Lyons (died c.202).

(Bowker Author Biography)