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The Church Fathers · c. 239–242

Homilies on Jeremiah

Origen of Alexandria · c. 185 – c. 253

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What it is

Twenty sermons taken down by shorthand writers as Origen preached at Caesarea, wrestling with a God who says he repents, who deceives the prophet, and who hands his own people over — and refusing every easy way out of the difficulty.

Why it lasted

The largest body of Origen's preaching to survive in the original Greek rather than in Latin translations that quietly corrected him, and the closest we get to hearing him in a pulpit rather than a study.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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