Letters

Origen

The surviving Letters of Origen — including the correspondence with Julius Africanus on the history of Susanna, and the celebrated letter to Gregory Thaumaturgus on the use of Greek philosophy in the service of Scripture. Translated by Frederick Crombie, 1885 Greeting, my lord and son, most worthy Origen, from Africanus. In your sacred discussion with Agnomon you referred to that prophecy of Daniel which is related of his youth. This at that time, as was meet, I accepted as genuine. Now, however, I cannot understand how it escaped you that this part of the book is spurious. For, in sooth, this section, although apart from this it is elegantly written, is plainly a more modern forgery. There are many proofs of this. When Susanna is condemned to die, the prophet is seized by the Spirit, and cries out that the sentence is unjust. Now, in the first place, it is always in some other way that …

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