On First Principles

(By Origen)

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“Book Descriptions: s/t: Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated into English Together with an Introduction & Notes
The Father
Christ
The Holy Spirit
Loss or falling away
Rational natures
The end or consummation
Things corporeal & incorporeal
The angels
The world & the creatures in it
The perpetuity of bodily nature
The beginning of the world & its causes
That there is one God of the law & the prophets, & that the God of the old & new covenants is the same
The just & the good
The incarnation of the Saviour
That it was the same Spirit who was in Moses & the rest of the prophets & in the holy apostles
The soul
The world & the movements of rational creatures both good & evil & the causes of these movements
Resurrection & punishment
The promises
Free will
How the devil & the opposing powers are, according to the Scriptures, at war with the human race
The threefold wisdom
Whether the statement made by some is true, that each individual has two souls
That the world is originated & subject to decay, since it took its beginning in time
The end
The inspiration of divine Scripture
How divine Scripture should be read & interpreted
The principle underlying the obscurities in divine Scripture & its impossible or unreasonable character in places, if taken literally
Summary of doctrine concerning the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit”