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

1078. Luke vi. 36.

1079. Matt.v. 48.

1080. Nihil eum rerum intellectualium ex se lateat.

1081. Cf.Prov.ii. 5, ἐπίγνωσιν Θεοῦ εὑρήσεις, Sept. Scientiam Dei invenies, Vulg. דַ֖עַת אֱלֹהִ֣ים תִּמְצָֽא.

1082. Nolte would change ἠστραγαλωμένοι (or ἀστραγαλώμενοι, as Wetsten. has it), which is a ἅπαξ εἰρημενον, into στραγγαλώμενοι or ἐστραγγαλωμένοι, “strangled.” He compares Tob. ii. 3.

1083. The Song of the Three Holy Children in the Apocrypha.

1084. This should probably be corrected, with Pat. Jun., into, “Nor are the letters, neither,” etc.

1085. 1 Cor.vi. 20; Rom. xiv. 15.

1086. Rom.viii. 32.

1087. Prov.xxii. 28.

1088. Origen’s most important contribution to biblical literature was his elaborate attempt to rectify the text of the Septuagint by collating it with the Hebrew original and other Greek versions. On this he spent twenty-eight years, during which he travelled through the East collecting materials. The form in which he first issued the result of his labours was that of the Tetrapla, which presented in four columns the texts of the LXX., Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion. He next issued the Hexapla, in which the Hebrew text was given, first in Hebrew and then in Greek letters. Of some books he gave two additional Greek versions, whence the title Octapla; and there was even a seventh Greek version added for some books. Unhappily this great work, which extended to nearly fifty volumes, was never transcribed, and so perished (Kitto, Cycl.).

1089. Jer. xxix. 22.

1090. Luke xii. 45, 46.

1091. Susanna 52, 53.

1092. Susanna 56.

1093. Et utrumque sigillatim in quamcunque mulierem incidebat, et cui vitium afferre cupiebat, ei secreto affirmasse sibi a Deo datum gignere Christum. Hinc spe gignendi Christum decepta mulier, sui copiam decipienti faciebat, et sic civium uxores stuprabant seniores Achib et Sedekias.

1094. Heb.xi. 38.

1095. Matt.xxiii. 29-36.

1096. Matt.xxiii. 30.

1097. Acts vii. 52.

1098. 1 Thess.ii. 14-16.

1099. Isa.i. 10.

1100. Heb.i. 1.

1101. Gen.xxxi. 10.

1102. Gen.xxxii. 24.

1103. Gen.xlix. 1.

1104. 1 Kings iii. 16-28.

1105. 1 Kings iii. 28.

1106. Ps.cxv. 13.

1107. Ps.i. 1.

1108. Tob.i. 12.

1109. Tob.i. 19.

1110. Tob.i. 22.

1111. Isa.ii. 2.

1112. Mic.iv. 1.

1113. 1 Chron.xvi. 8.

1114. Ex.xxxv. 2; Num. xv. 32; Jer. xvii. 21-24.

1115. In Levit.passim; Ezek.xliii.xliv.xlv.xlvi.

1116. This Gregory, styled the Wonder-worker, was afterwards bishop of Neo-Cæsarea.

1117. Origen evidently confounds Hadad the Edomite, of 1 Kings xii. 14, with Jeroboam.