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Jul 2, 2024 · Ancient translations of the original Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Scrolls show differences from the oldest Bible text we have.
Origen used the Biblical story of Esau and Jacob to support his theory that a soul's free will actions committed before incarnation determine the conditions of the person's birth. [171] Origen was an ardent believer in free will, [172] and he adamantly rejected the Valentinian idea of election. [173]
- I. Historical Background
- II. Explicit Statements Regarding Interpretiveprinciples
- III. Implicit Assumptions Regarding Text Andinterpretation
- IV. Some Passages Examined
- Conclusion
Origen did not invent his interpretive techniques. It has beenamply demonstrated that allegorical interpretation originated, or at least sawits first extensive development, in Hellenism, or perhaps Greece proper, in anattempt to bring the ancient and honored mythology and poetry into line withprevailing philosophical opinions. History, andthus "lit...
1. Inspiration
The most obviously determinative explicit assumption Origen makesregarding his text is that it is of divine origin. "The Logos of God arrangedthe Scriptures and spoke them" (4.71); "For it was fitting that the Creator ofthe whole world should have appointed laws for the whole world and given apower to the words that was able to overcome men everywhere" (1.18). The list could be expanded indefinitely. The conclusionof Zöllig is irrefragable:
2. The Literal Sense
Perhaps one of the more neglected areas of Origen study is theemphasis he places, in contrast to the pagan allegorizers, on the literalsense. In some ways he has an indebtedness to aliteral meaning that is unconscious, but he is certainly aware of and anxiousto defend the importance of the literal meaning. At least three positive valuesto the literal meaning are mentioned by Origen in Contra Celsum - (1)the Bible con- [p.288] tains true and important history, (2) the literal meaning has a...
3. Correspondence between Allegorical and literal
Origen assumed that there should be some correspondence betweenthe literal and allegorical meanings of Scripture. Generally, for theallegorical to be true, the literal should be. [p.290] Some of Origen's criticisms of Celsus are based on thisassumption. We already mentioned that in Contra Celsum3.43 Celsus isreported as finding a hidden allegorical meaning in the Cretan Zeus myth.Origen seems to place value in the fact that, whereas the Greek myth as well asthe NT may be capable of allegorica...
Origen made specific most of his operating principles, and being afairly critical thinker, he did not overlook much. Nevertheless, we mayperceive at least two interpretive principles of which Origen did not seem tobe consciously aware. The first is due to the fact that the tradition, which Origenbelieved was based solely on Scripture, was in proces...
How well does Origen follow through on his statements regardinginterpretation? At least in Contra Celsum he does rather well. Since Contra Celsumis a controversial and apologetic work, Origen usuallycarefully avoids allegorical interpretation. Frequently he feels the urge togive such interpretation, but resists: [p.297] Two other passages also bear...
Origen's basic commitments are to the Scriptures as the word ofGod, the church as the guardian of the tradition and the household of faith,and to Platonic metaphysics He thus [p.300] wants to hold both to his literally true Christian history, and tohis spiritually true Platonism. He thus strives to steer a middle coursebetween "purely spiritual" in...
On a certain occasion, on returning from the chase, urged by the cravings of hunger, Esau sold his birthright to his brother, Jacob, who thereby obtained the covenant blessing (Genesis 27:28, 29, 36; Hebrews 12:16, 17).
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good.
1455 Gutenberg’s Latin Bible—first from press. English Versions From Greek. 1516 Erasmus’s Greek New Testament, forerunner to the Textus Receptus used by KJV translators. 1525 William Tyndale...
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Oct 24, 2023 · Answer. We assume that there were three wise men because of the three gifts that were given: gold, incense, and myrrh (Matthew 2:11). However, the Bible does not say there were only three wise men. There could have been many more.
