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Origen

Origen of Alexandria (c. 184–c. 253). Early Christian scholar; author of On First Principles.

• Against Celsus c. 248 Contra Celsum Origen’s reply to the pagan critic Celsus on Christ, Scripture, and Christian worship. English by Frederick Crombie in the Ante-Nicene Fathers.
• On First Principles c. 220–230 De Principiis Origen’s On First Principles, mainly from Rufinus’s Latin with surviving Greek where noted in the ANF edition. English by Frederick Crombie.
• Homilies on Leviticus, Homily VIII c. 238–250 Homilia VIII in Leviticum Origen’s eighth homily on Leviticus (in Rufinus’s Latin): Christ as physician; the law of childbirth impurity; the celebrated argument that none of the saints kept birthday feasts—only Pharaoh and Herod are found celebrating them—and the allegory of the kinds of leprosy.