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Origen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2024

Hugh Pope O.P.
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It is regrettable that Dr Inge did not preface his Lecture with the following passage from Origen:

‘After we had come to believe that Christ was the Son of God, and had ceased to look for the truth among those who claimed that their erroneous doctrines were true, we were convinced that we had to learn that truth from Christ himself. For many think that their opinions are those of Christ and yet they differ from their predecessors. But since the teachings of the Church, transmitted in orderly succession from the Apostles and remaining in the Church to the present day, are still preserved, it is clear that that alone is to be accepted as the truth which in no way differs from Ecclesiastical and Apostolic tradition’.

The Lecture itself is very briefsome twenty-three pages. I have read it four times and each time I have found myself wondering what the audience gathered from it. Personally I was deeply disappointed. For like St Jerome I have read all Origen’s extant works (Ep. lxxxiv. 4), and, like the Hermit of Bethlehem, found them hard to understand.

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Blackfriars , Volume 28 , Issue 322 , January 1947 , pp. 16 - 20
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Copyright © 1947 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 Origen. By the Very Rev. Dr W. R. Inge, X.C.V.O. Fellow of the Academy. Annual Lecture on a Master Mind. Henrietta Hertz Trust of the British Academy. 1946. 2/. (Vol. XXXII of the Proceedings of the British Academy.)

2 Origen's Preface to the De Principiis. Rufinus's version.

3 Preface to De Principiis, Bk. III.

4 De Principiis, III. Vi. 3 and 9.

5 Fragments however are given by Jerome, Ep. cxxiv. Crombie. who translated the De Principiis for the edition of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, gives long extracts from this same Epistle. Two of these I can identify, the rest evade me. But since he twice cites §9.4 whereas there are only 15§§ in Migne's edition, he would seem to have had an edition of it unknown to me.

6 Ep. xciv, A.D. 400, translated by St Jerome.

7 Ibid. 1. cf. G. Bardy, Recherches sur l'histoire du Text et des Versions Latines du Des Principes d'Origène, 1924.

8 Ibd. vii. 40, viii. 12, in fact passim.

9 Eusebius, , H.E. vi, 39. Google Scholar

10 See Revue Biblique, July, 1921; Rufinus, Peroralis, P.G. xiv. 1993; Cassiodorus, , Instituta, P.L. lxx. 1111. Google Scholar