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Origen
185–253
Origen was a Christian theologian and church father from Alexandria who composed a number of commentaries on books in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as topical treatises, polemical works, and homilies. Origen was conversant in contemporary Greek traditions, which contributed to his teachings being deemed heretical a few centuries after his death. He was largely on good terms with Jewish groups and defended them against libel. He even mentions having conferred with Jews on certain Hebrew words for the sake of his exegesis.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Self-Rule under Empire
But you say, “How could they who were in captivity pass a sentence of death?” asserting, I know not on what grounds, that Susanna was the wife of a king, because of the name Joakim. The answer is…
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Origen’s Challenge to the Patriarch’s Authority
But what, then, is to be said of this, that the prophets had foretold beforehand of him that Rulers will not cease from Judah, nor leaders from his loins, until he should come, for whom it is reserved…
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True Law
As we have just mentioned the passage about Peter and those who taught Christianity to people of the circumcision, I do not think it out of place to quote a certain utterance of Jesus from John’s…
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Use of the Term “Old Testament”
The law becomes an “Old Testament” only for those who want to understand it in a fleshly way; and for them it has necessarily become old and aged, because it cannot maintain its strength. But for us…
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