Origen: Treatise on the Passover and Dialogue of Origen with Heraclides and His Fellow Bishops on the Father, the Son, and the Soul

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“He is indeed interested in the letter of the biblical text or, as in this case, the ‘history’ of the Exodus, but primarily because it is a key to the spiritual meaning which lies beneath or behind it. The center of this spiritual meaning is Christ. But this Christ is not primarily the historical Christ or the historical event of Christ’s life; it is the now living mystical Christ, it is the Christ-event as it is now taking place in the lives of the Christian faithful.” (Page 10)

“The task of the Christian exegete, then, is to move from the ‘letter’ in order to plumb the mystery of Christ speaking to the soul.” (Page 10)

“both Origen and Didymus were among those condemned as heretical at the Council of Constantinople in 553” (Page 1)

“He thus ascends to the Father. For what purpose? To recover His deposit.” (Pages 63–64)

“and, by reason of our incorporation into Christ, of our own still ongoing passing over with Christ to the Father.” (Page 7)