The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)

41. Prov.viii. 22-25. The reading in the text differs considerably from that of the Vulgate.

42. Col.i. 15.

43. 1 Cor.i. 24.

44. Aliquid insubstantivum.

45. Substantialiter.

46. Ad punctum alicujus momenti.

47. Omnis virtus ac deformatio futuræ creaturæ.

48. This work is mentioned by Eusebius, Hist. Eccles.B.iii.ch.iii. and xxv., as among the spurious writings current in the church. The Acts of Paul and Thecla was a different work from the Acts of Paul. The words quoted, “Hic est verbum animal vivens,” seem to be a corruption from Heb. iv. 12, ζῶν γὰρ ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ.

49. Or, “and the Word was God.”

50. “Quoniam hi qui videntur apud nos hominum filii, vel ceterorum animalium, semini eorum a quibus seminati sunt respondent, vel carum quarum in utero formantur ac nutriuntur, habent ex his quidquid illud est quod in lucem hanc assumunt, ac deferunt processuri.” Probably the last two words should be “deferunt processuris”—“and hand it over to those who are destined to come forth from them,” i.e. to their descendants.

51. Subsistentia. Some would read here, “substantia.”

52. Per adoptionem Spiritus. The original words here were probably εἰσποίησις τοῦ πνεύματος, and Rufinus seems to have mistaken the allusion to Gen. ii. 7. To “adoption,” in the technical theological sense, the words in the text cannot have any reference.—Schnitzer.

53. Col.i. 15.

54. Heb.i. 3.

55. ἀπόῤῥοια.

56. Wisd.vii. 25.

57. Gen.v. 3.

58. Subsistentia.

59. John xiv. 9.

60. Heb.i. 3.

61. Luke vi. 42.

62. Heb.i. 3. Substantiæ vel subsistentiæ.

63. Wisd.vii. 25, 26.

64. “Hujus ergo totius virtutis tantæ et tam immensæ vapor, et, ut ita dicam, vigor ipse in propriâ subsistentiâ effectus, quamvis ex ipsa virtute velut voluntas ex mente procedat, tamen et ipsa voluntas Dei nihilominus Dei virtus efficitur.”

65. 1 Cor.i. 24.

66. Ps.civ. 24.

67. John i. 3.

68. Rev.i. 8.

69. John xvii. 10.

70. Phil.ii. 10, 11.

71. John v. 19.

72. Abusive.

73. Ps.li. 11.

74. Dan.iv. 8.

75. John xx. 22.

76. Luke i. 35.

77. 1 Cor.xii. 3.

78. Acts viii. 18.

79. Cf.Matt.xii. 32 and Luke xii. 10.

80. Cf.Hermæ Past. Vis. v. Mandat. 12.