Origen the Preacher

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.