Origen and origins

David Campbell (bivalve@mailserv0.isis.unc.edu)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:46:42 -0400

Origen's describing Gen. 1-3 as "mysteries, the history having taken place
in appearance, and not literally" is quoted by Christopher A. Hall, Reading
Scripture with the Church Fathers, p. 146, from Origen's On First
Principles, 4.16, cited in Sadowski, Church Fathers on the Bible, p. 122.