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of his return; 6.29.4 Whereupon all the people, as if moved by one divine spirit, with all eagerness and one soul, shouted that he was worthy, and without delay took him and placed him upon the episcopal throne. Then, indeed, when Zebennus, the bishop of Antioch, had departed this life, Babylas succeeded to the office, and in Alexandria, after Demetrius, Heraclas received the ministry, Dionysius succeeded to the charge of the catechetical school there, he also having been one of Origen's students. 6.30.1 While Origen was carrying on his usual work at Caesarea, many came to him, not only of the local people, but also countless students from other lands who had left their own countries; of whom we have come to know as most distinguished Theodore, who was that same Gregory, the celebrated bishop of our day, and his brother Athenodorus, whom, when they were passionately devoted to Greek and Roman studies, he inspired with a love for philosophy and urged them to exchange their former pursuit for the divine discipline; and after associating with him for five whole years, they made such progress in divine things that, while still young, they were both deemed worthy of the episcopate of the churches in Pontus. At this time also Africanus, the author of the works entitled Cesti, was well known. A letter of his written to Origen is extant, in which he expresses his perplexity that the story of Susanna in Daniel was spurious and fabricated; to which Origen replied very fully. 6.31.2 Of the same Africanus, five other works, carefully composed studies of Chronographies, have come down to us; in which he says that he himself made a journey to Alexandria on account of the great fame of Heraclas, whom we have shown to have been especially distinguished in philosophical subjects and other Greek studies, and to have been entrusted with the episcopate of the church there. 6.31.3 And another letter of the same Africanus is extant, to Aristides, concerning the supposed discrepancy in the genealogies of Christ in Matthew and Luke; in which he most clearly establishes the harmony of the evangelists from a history that had come down to him, which I have already set forth in its proper place in the first book of the present work. 6.32.1 And for Origen at this time the commentaries on 6.32.1 Isaiah, and at the same time those on Ezekiel were composed; of which, thirty volumes on the third part of Isaiah up to the vision of the four-footed beasts in the desert have survived to us, and on Ezekiel twenty-five, which are the only ones he composed on the whole prophet. 6.32.2 And being at that time in Athens, he finished the commentaries on Ezekiel, and began those on the Song of Songs, and proceeded there as far as the fifth treatise; and having returned to Caesarea, he brought these also to a conclusion, being ten in number. 6.32.3 But why is it necessary at present to make an exact catalogue of the man's works, a task which requires its own special treatment? which we have also written in our account of the life of Pamphilus, the holy martyr of our day, in which, while setting forth how great was the diligence of Pamphilus in divine things, I have given the catalogues of the library collected by him of the works of Origen and of other ecclesiastical writers, from which it is possible for anyone who wishes, to know most completely which of Origen's works have come down to us. But now we must proceed to the sequence of the history. 6.33.1 Beryllus, the bishop of Bostra in Arabia, whom we mentioned a little before, turning aside from the ecclesiastical rule, attempted to introduce certain things foreign to the faith, daring to say that our Savior and Lord did not pre-exist in a proper circumscription of His own being before His sojourn among men, nor did He have a divinity of His own, but only the Father's dwelling in him. 6.33.2 On this account, when many bishops had made investigations and held dialogues with the man, Origen, being invited with others, went down at first for a conversation with the man, to learn what his opinion was,

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