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

798. 1 Cor.i. 26-28. Quæ erant prius.

799. 1 Cor.i. 29.

800. Deut.xxxii.

801. τοῦ προτέρου λαοῦ.

802. Deut.xxxii. 21.

803. Cf. 1 Cor. i. 26-28. “The things which formerly existed, τὰ πρότερον ὄντα.”

804. Ps.xliv. 2, 3.

805. Cf.Ps.lxxii. 7.

806. Ps.lxxii. 8.

807. Cf.Isa.viii. 8, 9. Quoted from the Septuagint.

808. Cf.Mic.v. 2 and Matt. ii. 6.

809. Cf.Dan.ix. 4. Ad ducem Christum; “To Messiah the Prince,” auth. vers.

810. The allusion is perhaps to Job xli. 1.

811. Ps.xlv. 42.

812. Ps.lxxii. 7.

813. Ps.lxxii. 8.

814. ἔτεκε καὶ ἐν γαστρὶ ἔσχε, καὶ ἔτεκεν υἱόν.

815. Cf.Isa.viii. 8, 9. Quoted from the Septuagint.

816. Cf.Mic.v. 2 with Matt. ii. 6.

817. Cf.Dan.ix. 24.

818. Cf. Job xl. and xli.

819. τὸ μέγα κῆτος.

820. Cf. Luke x. 19.

821. Divino, ut ita dixerim, cothurno.

822. ὡς ἐν ἐπιτομῇ.

823. διὰ τοῦτο τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐκλογῆς κεκρατηκότα.

824. ἴχνος ἐνθουσιασμοῦ.

825. “Nam et inter ipsos homines ab alio minus, ab alio amplius consideratur: plus vero ab omni homine, qui in terris est, quis-quis ille est cœli habitator, agnoscitur.” The translation of Rufinus, as Redepenning remarks, seems very confused. Probably also the text is corrupt. The Greek without doubt gives the genuine thought of Origen. By omitting the ab we approximate to the Greek, and get: “but he, whoever he be, who is inhabitant of heaven, is better known than any man who is on the earth;” or according to the punctuation in the old editions, “but he who is inhabitant of heaven is better known than any man on earth, whoever he be.”

826. In vilioribus et incomptis verborum vasculis.

827. Cf. 2 Cor. iv. 7.

828. Ad fidem credulitatemque.

829. 1 Cor.ii. 6.

830. Temporibus eternis.

831. Male.

832. τὸ ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον τῶν νοημάτων.

833. ὁ τεχνικὸς λόγος.

834. Σφόδρα τοῦ πρὸς τί καὶ ἕνεκα τίνος εὑρισκομένου τοῖς τούτων ἐπιμελομένοις, περὶ τὰς ὁρμὰς, καὶ τὰς φαντασίας, καὶ φύσεις τῶν ζώων, καὶ τὰς κατασκευὰς τῶν σωμάτων.

835. χρεοκοπεῖται.

836. ἐν εὐτελεῖ καὶ εὐκαταφρονήτῳ λέξει.

837. καθημαξευμέναι.