This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...of that province.4 This ordination was to Origen the source of a violent persecution. Demetrius, his diocesan, incensed at a step which he considered as an unauthorized interference with his duties; and actuated, it appears, by feelings of jealousy, forgot his former praises, and reproached Origen with the indiscreet ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...of that province.4 This ordination was to Origen the source of a violent persecution. Demetrius, his diocesan, incensed at a step which he considered as an unauthorized interference with his duties; and actuated, it appears, by feelings of jealousy, forgot his former praises, and reproached Origen with the indiscreet act which he had committed in his youth." On his return to Alexandria, where he continued with his usual A. D. 231. ardour his studious pursuits, he felt the effects of the hostility which had been excited against him. Envy never pardons. It was ordained by a council that he should not be permitted to teach, nor even to reside in that city; but, nevertheless, he should retain his dignity of priest.4 Hence it may, perhaps, be inferred that his doctrine, as well as his ordination, had exposed him to censure. Certain it is, that to his real errors the malignant activity of fabricators had added many inventions7 calculated to strengthen, if not to implant, unfavourable prejudices. Thus banished from Alexandria, he left the office of catechist to Heraclas, and retired again to Caesarea, where he was again received with every mark of respect and affection by Alexander and Theoctistus, who intrusted to his care the public exposition of the Scripture.8 Demetrius, however, dissatisfied with the first condemnation against Origen, accused him before some bishops of Egypt; and, with their concurrence, deprived him of his priesthood, and put him He i- out of the communion of the Church. This sentence of deposition dop08"ar, d 1 Epiph. Hseres. lxiv. c. iii. &c. So indefatigable was Origen, that Jerome (Ep. 29) calls him Chalcenterus (aA. vTss), an epithet applied to Didymus the Grammarian, who wrote 3,500 books. Erasm. Adag. Euseb. lib...
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