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_ e. Ina word, it muft be owned that Origen, though 
ot perfe& nor infallible, was a bright light in the church 
a Chritt, and one of thofe rare perionages that have done 
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our Polyglott bibles The other works of Origen upon the 
co contifte Commentaries upon the books of the 
Old and ew Teitament, rc nd Homilies. In his Com 
which i is now loft, 
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otes apa eee of difficult 
of his “ Homilies,” 
are 
feparately preferved. d to the {feparate pieces of 
ifferent and mifcellaneous fubje€ts, we have, 
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turgus ;”” fragments of other ¢¢ Letters,” ay ‘© Philocalia,’’ 
extracts out of Origen’s works by oregery 
3 thefe are in Greek 
probably with oa juftic 
prove the intr 
which were not in a8 till after the al of Nice ; and it 
has been fuppofed ae fome learned perfons that the pieces 
ftill extant in Greek have been interpolated, or otherwife 
altered, to make Origen {peak more agreeably to modern 
orthodoxy upon original fin, and other controverted points, 
eer he really wrote or thought. The works of Origen, 
ich are communicated to. us only through the medium of 
Latin verfions, were collected by Merlin, and afterwards 
by ane and publifhed at Paris in 1512, and at Bafil in 
1536, in two volumes folio. In 1574, a larger colle¢tion, 
including meee tranflated by the editor, was publifhed at 
Paris nae the care of Gilbert Genebrard, in two volumes, 
and was reprinted in 1604 and 1619. - Huet, bifhop of 
Avance publifhed in 1668 the Greek fragments of 
n’s ‘ Homilies,” and his ‘¢ Commentaries’ upon the 
feriptures, with a Latin verfion, to which are prefixed co- 
pious and learned prolegomena, under the title of “ Ori- 
niana,’’? containing an account of the life and writings of 
this menage In 1623, Michael Ghifleri publifhed at Reme 
Origen ommentary on the 28th chapter of the firft 
book of Saal he containing an Sean of Saul’s  vifit 
to a Baas ended witch at Endor, and es ae of his 
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Latin verfion by Gelenius, and the notes of Hefchelius, and 
were afterw ae given to the public more correctly at Cam 
bridge in 1658 by William Spencer, who improved the 
ORT 
tranflation, and gave additional notes of his This 
edition comprifes the author’s « clio five ae vobleuri 
S ocis.”? omplete edition of all the 
in Greek a d Latin, was commenced at 
Paris by Charles iy la Rue, a Benedi@tine monk, in the year 
: the editor died in 1739, when only three. volumes of 
his work were publifhed ; 
of the fame religious community, v 
lifhed the fourth and laft v olum 
Dupin. Lardner, vol. ii. edit. 1788. p. 442—544. En- 
field’s Hift. Phil. vol. ii. See our carck ORIGENISTS. 
eas a Gentile philofo 
the i 
. St. Maur, who pub- 
me in ale year 1759. Cave. 
ANS, OriceEnists, or Origeniani, in Eccle- 
faftical Hiftory, a ieee of ancient heretics, who refembled or 
even furpafled the abominations of the Gnoftics. 
St. Epiphanius {peaks of them as fubfifting in his time, 
but ia very {mall number. He charges them with licentious 
principles, as well as fhameful praétices. He feems to fix 
their rife about the time of the great Origen; but does not 
fay they took their name from him. On the contrary, he 
diftinguifhes them from the Origenifts, whom he derives from 
Origen Adamantius ; ae indeed, that they firft took 
St. rew, &c. and that, to excufe their open crimes, they 
acl the Catholics of doing the fame in private. 
It is difputed by sei moderns, whom thefe people 
followed, and from whom they were named. Bafnage 
had any cert 
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