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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 18

[481] p. 118.

… Matt. vii. 16. [510] cf. Matt. vii. 18. [511] On the connexion between seleniasmos and epilepsia, cf. Origen iii. 575-577, and Cæsarius, Quæst. 50. On the special attribution of epilepsy to dæmoniacal influence illustrated …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 342

Chapter XI.

… 5. [4111] mudron diapuron. [4112] ten euktiken dunamin. [4113] [See note in Migne's edition of Origen's Works, vol. i. p. 1195; also note supra, p. 262. S.] [4114] Cf. Matt. xix. 17; cf …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 144

Letter CXXVI. To Marcellinus and Anapsychia.

… You ask whether it has fallen from heaven, as Pythagoras, all Platonists, and Origen suppose; or whether it is part of God's essence as the Stoics, Manes, and the Spanish Priscillianists hint. Whether souls …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 147

Chapter XIV.--The properties of the divine nature.

… In what way then will the period of one thousand years be counted which, according to Origen [1649] , is required for the complete restoration? Of all the ages, therefore, the sole creator is God Who …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 313

Chapter XLIV.

… boulemati. [3905] echei de tina kai kath' hauto apologian. [Our Edinburgh translator gives a misleading rendering here. Origen throughout this part of his argument is reasoning ad hominem, and has shown that Greek philosophy sustains …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 101

Letter XVII. [1903]

… their father can ask. [1903] Placed during the reign of Julian. [1904] Nothing is known of this Origen beyond what is suggested in this letter. He is conjectured to have been a layman, who, alike …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 19

[222] alla gar pasi mechri rhematon to philosophein stesasin.

… Argument XIII.--The Method Which Origen Used in His Theological and Metaphysical Instructions. He Commends the Study of All Writers, the Atheistic Alone Excepted. The Marvellous Power of Persuasion in Speech. The Facility of the …

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Basil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 39

Chapter IX.

… 38 [lxxv.]) writes "non ab initio dii facti sumus, sed primo quidem homines, tunc demum dii." "Secundum enim benignitatem suam bene dedit bonum, et similes sibi suæ potestatis homines fecit;" and Origen (contra Celsum, iii …

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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 42

Letter XL. To Marcella.

… 16-22, Jerome follows Origen, who, in his homily de Engastrimytho, lays down that until Christ came to set them free the patriarchs, prophets, and saints of the Old Testament were all in hell. [832 …

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Socrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 53

Chapter XLIV.--Of Meletius [445] Bishop of Antioch.

… George bishop of Laodicea, who being unskilled in such phrases, was ignorant of the manner in which Origen had formerly explained these peculiar expressions of the apostle, having thoroughly investigated the matter. But notwithstanding these …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 229

Chapter IX.

… 414, where he says, "Origen maintains Christ's true divinity against the contemptuous criticisms of Celsus" (book ii. 9, 16, seq.; vii. 53, etc.). S.] [3238] Ps. cxlviii. 5. [3239] perigegrammenon tina. [3240] John i …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 294

Preface to Origen's Homilies on Numbers.

… Preface to Origen's Homilies on Numbers. Addressed to Ursacius. [3445] Written in 410. [3446] ------------------------ My dear brother, I might rightly address you in the words of the blessed master, "You do well, dearest Donatus …

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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 154

[5136] John ii. 22.

… be large enough we will here pause in our theme. [5148] John xiii. 2-27. [5149] Ps. lxxxiv. 5. Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. by John Patrick, D.D. Commentary on Matthew. ------------------------

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 25

Chapter XXXIII.--The Burning Æsculapius; Tricks with Fire.

… Hermann, is of opinion that what follows is taken from Celsus' work on magic, to which Origen alludes in the Contra Celsum, lib. i. p. 53 (Spencer's edition). Lucian (the well-known satirist), in …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 163

Chapter XXX.--Concerning Prescience and Predestination.

… ad Græcos; Origen, Ep. ad Rom. 1; Jerome, on Ezek. c. xxiv., &c. [1913] Act. S. Max. [1914] Cf. Clem. Alex., Strom., bk. vi.; Jerome, on Ep. ad Gal., ch. 1; Greg. Naz, Carmen de …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 53

Chapter XV.--The Gospel according to Mark.

… 5), and Origen (quoted below, VI. 25) confirm the tradition, which is repeated over and over again by the Fathers. The question as to the real authorship of our second Gospel, or rather as to …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 150

Chapter XIV.

… 27.--Origen (c. Cels. vii. 48, 49), comparing Pagan and Christian virginity, says, "The Athenian hierophant, distrusting his power of self-control for the period of his regular religious duties, uses hemlock, and passes as …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 234

[2480] to meli tes 'Attikes, in allusion to Meletius' name.

… Peter seems, to judge from the extant fragments, to have been in the main an Origenist, but to have departed in some important respects from the teachings of Origen, especially on the subject of anthropology …

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Cyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 32

[691] Ps. cx. 1.

… the animal souls themselves, they say that some are by nature good, and others by nature evil." Origen on Romans, Lib. VIII. § 10: "I know not how those who come from the School of Valentinus …

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Augustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 200

Letter XLI.

… As to the reply which you were pleased to give me concerning Origen, I did not need to be told that we should, not only in ecclesiastical writers, but in all others, approve and commend …

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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 133

Chapter XXIX.

… 3) shows by quotations from other writers besides those produced at the Council, going back as far as to Origen. The Fathers cited may certainly be said to fulfil to some extent Vincentius's requirement …

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