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Origenes, Epistola ad Gregorium
Editors' preface
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Editors' preface
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θείαν προσειληφώς. « Vir laude dignus, qui cum cognitione rerum divinarum etiam externas didicit disciplinas, » inquit Theodoretus lib. III Haeretic. fabul., cap. 2. Scripsit Apologeticum pro Christianis, quod imperatori Marco Antonino secundo, cognomine Vero, obtulit: item libros quinque Adversus gentes, et duos De veritate et adversum Cataphrygas seu Montanistas. De quibus vide Hieronymum in Catalogo, Photium in Bibliothec., cod. 14, et Theodoretum loco supra laudato. Trithemius eum floruisse vult circa annum Domini 165; Eusebius tamen, in Chronico ab Hieronymo Latine verso, ei assignat annum Christi 172. Mors autem Maximini, post quam statuit Huetius hanc Origenis epistolam scriptam fuisse, incidit in annum Christi 238, sicque intercedit spatium 66 annorum. Oportet igitur ut Apollinarius longaevam vixerit vitam et fere centum attigerit annos, si is est quem hic salutat Origenes: aut alius denique nobis Apollinarius est quaerendus. Vix autem alium reperies episcopum, hoc nomine iis temporibus notum. Episcopatus vero hujus Apollinarii, quisquis fuerit, papae nomen est index. Nam papae antiquitus salutabantur omnes episcopi. Sic Athanasius apud Epiphanium, haeres. 68; Epiphanius, apud Hieronymum in Apolog. adversus Rufinum; Augustinus apud eumdem in fine epist. ad Augustinum; Joannes patriarcha Alexandrinus a Sophronio patriarcha Hierosol. l. II Epigr., c. 1, pag. 104; Lupus a Sidonio Apollinari epist. lib. VIII, pag. 272; item Noverius, Principius, Prosper, Euphronius, Ambrosius, etc., eodem lib. VIII et IX hoc nomine honorantur. Estque πάπας, πατρὸς ὑποκόρισμα, explicante Hesychio. WETSTENIUS.
...having taken up the divine [learning]. "A man worthy of praise, who together with the knowledge of divine things learned the outside disciplines as well," says Theodoret, Haereticarum fabularum book III, chapter 2. He wrote an Apology for the Christians, which he presented to the emperor Marcus Antoninus the second, surnamed Verus; also five books Against the Gentiles, and two On Truth and Against the Cataphrygians or Montanists. On these see Jerome in the Catalogue, Photius in the Bibliotheca, codex 14, and Theodoret in the place cited above. Trithemius has him flourish about the year of the Lord 165; Eusebius, however, in the Chronicle as translated into Latin by Jerome, assigns him the year of Christ 172. But the death of Maximinus, after which Huet held this letter of Origen to have been written, falls in the year of Christ 238, and so a span of 66 years lies between. Apollinarius must therefore have lived a long life and reached almost a hundred years, if he is the one Origen greets here; or else in the end we must look for another Apollinarius. Yet you will hardly find another bishop known by this name in those times. That this Apollinarius, whoever he was, was a bishop is shown by the name "papa". For in ancient times all bishops were addressed as "papa". So Athanasius in Epiphanius, Heresy 68; Epiphanius in Jerome, in the Apology against Rufinus; Augustine in the same, at the end of the letter to Augustine; John, patriarch of Alexandria, by Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, Epigrams book II, c. 1, p. 104; Lupus by Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters book VIII, p. 272; likewise Noverius, Principius, Prosper, Euphronius, Ambrosius, etc., are honoured with this name in the same books VIII and IX. And πάπας is a pet name for "father" (πατρός), as Hesychius explains. WETSTEIN.
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Γρηγόριε. Is est sanctus Gregorius qui postea, ob miraculorum donum quo pollebat Thaumaturgus dictus, Neocaesareae episcopus fuit. Hujus πανηγυρικὸν εὐχαριστίας ad Origenem habes initio hujus tomi. De hoc celeberrimo viro consule, si vacat, Eusebium Histor. eccles. lib. VI, cap. 30; Hieronymum De scriptor. eccles., num. 65.
Gregory. This is Saint Gregory, who was afterwards bishop of Neocaesarea, called the Wonderworker for the gift of miracles in which he excelled. His panegyric of thanksgiving to Origen you have at the beginning of this volume. On this most celebrated man consult, if you have time, Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History book VI, chapter 30; Jerome, On Ecclesiastical Writers, no. 65.
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III Reg. II, 14.
3 Kings (1 Kings) 11:14.
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Exod. XXXII, 4.
Exodus 32:4.
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Ἄδερ γοῦν ὁ Ἰδουμαῖος, etc. Confundere videtur hoc loco Origenes Ader seu Adad cum Jeroboam. Confer caput undecimum libri tertii Regum cum ejusdem libri capite duodecimo.
"Ader the Idumaean," etc. In this place Origen seems to confuse Ader, or Adad, with Jeroboam. Compare the eleventh chapter of the third book of Kings with the twelfth chapter of the same book.
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Joan. X, 3.
John 10:3.
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Matth. VII, 7.
Matthew 7:7.
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Luc. II, 9.
Luke 11:9.
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Heb. III, 14.
Hebrews 3:14.
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Desumptum est hocce fragmentum ex Apologia Pamphili pro Origene.
This fragment is taken from Pamphilus's Apology for Origen.
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