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They arrived at this idea by considering the number five, the number of the senses, as the mystical opponent of the visible and sensible universe ta aistheta, as distinguished from ta noita. Origen lays down the rule in express terms. "The number five," he says, "frequently, nay almost always, is taken for the five senses." In another passage, Keble deals with an even more recondite question.
According to that Gospel which hath hitherto been the pillar of the Christian world, we are taught that whosoever endeavours to the best of his ability to reform his manners, and amend his life, will have pardon and acceptance. As interpreted by whom? By the Socini, or the Barrister? Or by Origen, Chrysostom, Jerome, the Gregories, Eusebius, Athanasius? By Thomas Aquinas, Bernard, Thomas-a-Kempis?
Elaborate theories of atonement, justification, and grace were expounded on his authority, as if he had been a religious philosopher or theological professor like Origen and Thomas Aquinas. The name of the apostle came to be associated with angular and frigid disquisitions which were rapidly losing their connexion with vital religion.
Thus to Butler I trace those two principles of my teaching, which have led to a charge against me both of fancifulness and of scepticism. It is significant that Butler begins his work with a quotation from Origen. And now as to Dr. Whately. I owe him a great deal. He was a man of generous and warm heart.
The Celsus of Origen is in reality a Platonist. It still being acknowledged that the friend of Lucian was an Epicurean, this discovery seemed fatal to the supposition that he was the author of the work against the Christians. Accordingly there was a tendency among critics, though not quite a unanimous tendency, to separate again the two personalities which had been united. At this point Dr.
Subsequently even the Christian church received from it some of the most eminent of its Fathers, as Clemens Alexandrinus, Origen, Athanasius. The library in the Museum was burnt during the siege of Alexandria by Julius Caesar. To make amends for this great loss, that collected by Eumenes, King of Pergamus, was presented by Mark Antony to Queen Cleopatra.
The names of Montanus and Tertullian, Clemens and Origen, fell on her ear, and at last she heard Andreas exclaim in high wrath: "You are like the guests at a richly furnished banquet who ask, after they have well eaten, when the meat will be brought in. Paraclete is come, and yet you look for another."
The broad philosophy of Clement and Origen carried me away; the philosophy, not the theological doctrine; and I have drawn out some features of it in my volume, with the zeal and freshness, but with the partiality, of a neophyte.
Faith is a summary knowledge of urgent truths, suitable for people who are in a hurry; but knowledge is scientific faith. And his pupil Origen writes of 'the popular, irrational faith' which leads to what he calls physical Christianity, based upon the gospel history, as opposed to the spiritual Christianity conferred by the Gnosis of Wisdom.
Irenaeus, in the place I have quoted, speaks of him as the companion of Apostles, Clement of Alexandria as an Apostle, Eusebius and Origen as the fellow-labourer of St. Paul. Now, I will not at present insist upon the more than likelihood that such was the fact.
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