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Origen of Alexandria, De Principiis
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Chapter III.—On the Holy Spirit.
Chapter IV.—On Defection, or Falling Away.
Chapter V.—On Rational Natures.
Chapter VI.—On the End or Consummation.
Chapter VII.—On Incorporeal and Corporeal Beings.
Fragment from the First Book of the de Principiis.
Another Fragment from the Same.
Chapter II.—On the Perpetuity of Bodily Nature.
Chapter III.—On the Beginning of the World, and Its Causes.
Chapter V.—On Justice and Goodness.
Chapter VI.—On the Incarnation of Christ.
Chapter VII.—On the Holy Spirit.
Chapter VIII.—On the Soul (Anima).
Chapter X.—On the Resurrection, and the Judgment, the Fire of Hell, and Punishments.
Translated from Latin of Rufinus.
Chapter II.—On the Opposing Powers.
Chapter III.—On Threefold Wisdom.
Chapter IV.—On Human Temptations.
Chapter V.—That the World Took Its Beginning in Time.
Fragment from the First Book of the de Principiis.
Translated by Jerome in His Epistle to Avitus.
“It is an evidence of great negligence and sloth, that each one should fall down to such (a pitch of degradation), and be so emptied, as that, in coming to evil, he may be fastened to the gross body of irrational beasts of burden.”