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• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

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  Strong, Weather, House

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• Those who are wise ambassadors of the word have no other object in view than to free as far as they can their hearers from weak opinions, and to endue them with intelligence.

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  Wise, Views, Ambassadors

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• We speak, indeed, of the wrath of God. We do not, however, assert that it indicates any passion on His part, but that it is something which is assumed in order to discipline by stern means those sinners who have committed many and grievous sins.

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  Mean, Passion, Wrath

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• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

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  Wise, Writing, Men

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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

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  Wisdom, Son, Quality

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.

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  Jesus, Spring, Men

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• The honor that we pay to the Son of God, as well as that which we render to God the Father, consists of an upright course of life. This is plainly taught us by the passage, "You that boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonor God."...For if he who transgresses the law dishonors God by his transgression,...it is evident that he who keeps the law honors God. So the worshipper of God is he whose life is regulated by the principles and teachings of the Divine Word

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  Father, Teaching, Son

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• If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great care, it is certain that in that very act he will be struck in his mind and senses by some more divine breath and will recognize that the books he reads have not been produced in a human way, but are words of God.

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  Book, Writing, Mind

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• Ask, and it shall be given you.

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  Given, Asks

  Origen , Aeterna Press (2016). “Origen Collection [2 Books]”, p.40, Aeterna Press

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• It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it is beyond a doubt bodies are only of secondary importance and arise from time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with them, and contrariwise, when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better things their bodies are once more annihilated. They are ever vanishing and ever reappearing.

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  Soul, Doubt, Body

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• Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given for the remission of sins, and, according to the usage of the Church, baptism is given even to infants. If there were nothing in infants which required the remission of sins and nothing in them pertinent to forgiveness, the grace of baptism would seem superfluous

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  Grace, Soul, Baptism

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• But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

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  Elements, Should, Found

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

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  Father, Sacred, Mystery

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• God puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.

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  Feet, Enemy, Christ

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• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

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  Teaching, Angel, Men

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.57, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.

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  Christian, Military, Soldier

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• He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.

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  Spiritual, Understanding, Mind

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• This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

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  Teaching, Church, Wickedness

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.56, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

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  Fall, Angel, Devil

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.56, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

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  Believe, Sage, Mouths

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• We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

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  Fields, Speak, Should

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• Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

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  Justice, Next, Sin

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag

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