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

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1158. Οἱονεὶ κωλύεται κατηγορήσας, ὡς βούλεται, ἀπολογεῖσθαι τοὺς δυναμένους ὡς πέφυκεν ἔχειν τὰ πράγματα. We have taken κωλύεται as middle. Some propose κωλύει. And we have read βούλονται, a lection which is given by a second hand in one MS.
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1159. Ἐπιτρίψαι. Other readings are ἐπιστρέψαι and ἀποστρέψαι, which convey the opposite meaning.
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1165. Ἐπὶ τὸν τυφλὸν πλοῦτον, καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν σαρκῶν καὶ αἱμάτων καὶ ὀστέων συμμετρίαν ἐν ὑγείᾳ καὶ εὐεξίᾳ, ἤ τὴν νομιζομένην εὐγένειαν.
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1167. Ὡς γενομένου ἡγεμόνος τῇ καθὸ Χριστιανοί ἐσμεν γενέσει ἡμῶν.
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1171. Gelenius reads ὁπλίζων (instead of ἀλείφων), which has been adopted in the translation.
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1172. Cf. Homer’s Iliad, book v. 2, 3.
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1173. Cf.Isa.vii. 10-14 with Matt. i. 23.
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1187. Πεποίηκεν ἀντὶ σπερματικοῦ λόγου, τοῦ ἐκ μίξεως τῶν ἀῤῥένων ταῖς γυναιξὶ, ἄλλῳ τρόπῳ γενέσθαι τὸν λόγον τοῦ τεχθησομένου.
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1188. This difficult passage is rendered in the Latin translation: “but that, after they had believed [in Christ], they with no adequate supply of arguments, such as is furnished by the Greek dialectics, gave themselves up,” etc.
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1194. Cf. Joseph. Antiq. book xviii. c. x. sec. 2.

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The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2), Project Gutenberg eBook #70561

Chapter LXXI.