Origen the Preacher - Being Fifty Short Sermon Notes Founded Upon Select Passages From His Writings #269763

Origen was born at Alexandria, a.d. 185. Leonidas his father, a man both of fortune and position, an ardent Christian and a lover of learning, instructed his son in the Holy Scriptures from his earliest years, causing him to commit to memory and re cite some passage of Holy Writ every day. This pious seed was sown in a most kindly and fertile soil. The child was ever thinking upon that which he both read and learned, diving into the abstruser senses of the text (euscb. Eccles.