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He calls him "a follower and disciple of apostles," and declares that "he was inseparable from Paul and was his fellow-helper in the gospel." This is the earliest distinct reference to the book in any ancient Christian writing. After this, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen, and Eusebius bear the same testimony. But these are late witnesses.
Compare, however, Sturz, Thales, p. 80; Proclus, in Tim., i. p. 40; Schol. Aristophanes, Nub., ii. 31; Varro, ii. vi. 10. See also, Ideler Chron., vol. i. p. 300. But Brandis sheds light upon the point, though his suggestions conflict with Origen, Phil., p. 11; also with Aristotle, De Coel., ii. 13. We have now surveyed all that was glorious in the most splendid empire of antiquity.
Origen was entirely justified in showing that in this process Celsus frequently forgot his part; and this he did with much skill. But whatever Celsus may have been,—an Epicurean, or, as has occasionally been maintained, a Neo-platonist,—he was at all events no mean adversary and certainly not unworthy of Origen’s steel. If not, why should Origen have felt the need of such an earnest refutation?
Thus the ancient doctors, Origen, Cyprian, Chrysostom, Gregory, Augustine, taught in attestation of the Holy Scriptures, especially from 2 Kings 12, concerning David, 2 Chron 3:1, concerning Manasseh, Ps. 31, 37, 50, 101, etc.
But however this may be, the Logos Christology was invaluable for Origen in finding room in Christian theology for the identification of God with Immaterial Reality.
'There! cried Louis, starting, 'Origen is lying on the very chair where I put him last January. I will write to Jem Frost to-morrow to send him to the binder. 'Is it of any use to ask for the music? 'I assure you, Mr. Holdsworth, I am very sorry. I'll write at once to Frost.
They are full of bitter reproaches against Origen and his writings, and they charge him with having treated Jesus more cruelly than Pilate or the Jews had done. John, the famous monk of the Thebaid, was no writer, though believed to have the gift of prophecy.
Origen imputes this evasion to Celsus; Jerome to Porphyry; and Lactantius to the heathen in general. The several passages which contain these testimonies will be produced in the next chapter.
No, men and women of the best families came streaming in, and this creed as was proclaimed by Demetrius, the eloquent bishop; by Origen, who in power and learning was the superior of any heathen philosopher; by the zealous Andreas, and many another chosen spirit this creed was the religion of the future.
After remarking that "the object of Christianity is that we should become wise," Origen proceeds: "If you come to the books written after the time of Jesus, you will find that those multitudes of believers who hear the parables are, as it were, 'without, and worthy only of exoteric doctrines, while the disciples learn in private the explanation of the parables.
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