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Origen

Second- and third-century Christian exegete; the surviving First Principles argues for an incorporeal God.

Positions in specific texts, not a consensus of early or later Christianity; no portraits depicted
Positions in specific texts, not a consensus of early or later Christianity; no portraits depictedIL Archive · original diagram · CC BYImage source

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Edition
2

Text

First Principles I.1 rejects body and magnitude and describes a simple intellectual nature, not another bodily source. It differs from TertullianTertullianLatin Christian author of the late second and early third centuries with a distinctive body–spirit vocabulary.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s vocabulary. [1]

The available text passes through Rufinus’s Latin translation, an important transmission qualification. The passage does not make early Christianity doctrinally uniform.

References and notes

  1. Origen, On First Principles I.1, §§6–7 Rejection of body and magnitude; transmitted through Rufinus’s Latin version. Return to the text ↑

Research history

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  1. Edition 2 · 11 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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IL Archive, «Origen», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/people/origen