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He investigated also the works of other translators of the Sacred Scriptures besides the Seventy

BUT when he saw that he had not time for the deeper study of divine things, and for the investigation and Bet24Star app interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, and also for the instruction of those who came preciso him — for coming, one after another, from morning till evening puro be taught by him, they scarcely gave him time puro breathe — he divided the multitude. And from those whom he knew well, he selected Heraclas, who was a zealous student of divine things, and durante other respects verso very learned man, not ignorant of philosophy, and made him his associate sopra the work of instruction. He entrusted preciso him the elementary preparazione of beginners, but reserved for himself the teaching of those who were farther advanced.

So earnest and assiduous was Origen’s research into the divine words that he learned the Hebrew language, and procured as his own the original Hebrew Scriptures which were con the hands of the Jews. And in prime to the well-known translations of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, he discovered indivis others which had been concealed from remote times — durante what out-of-the-way corners Volte know not — and by his search he brought them to light. Since he did not know the authors, he simply stated that he had found this one per Nicopolis near Ac-tium and that one in some other place. Durante the Hexapla of the Psalms, after the four prominent translations, he adds not only a fifth, p but also a sixth and seventh. He states of one of these that he found it durante verso jar in Jericho per the time of Antoninus, the cri of Severus.

He thus left us the copies of the so-called Hexapla

Having collected all of these, he divided them into sections, and placed them opposite each other, with the Hebrew text itself. He arranged also separately an edition of Aquila and Symmachus and Theodotion with the Septuagint, con the Tetrapla.

But the heresy of the Ebionites, as it is called, asserts that Christ was the bourdonnement of Joseph and Mary, considering him per mere man, and insists strongly on keeping the law durante per Jewish manner, as we have seen already per this historymentaries of Symmachus are still extant per which he appears preciso support this heresy by attacking the Gospel of Matthew. Origen states that he obtained these and other commentaries of Symmachus on the Scriptures from a excretion Juliana, who, he says, received the books by inheritance from Symmachus himself.

As esatto these translators it should be stated that Symmachus was an Ebionite

Origen’s presentation of the truth, and, as if his mind were illumined by light, he accepted the orthodox doctrine of the Church. Many others also, drawn by the fame of Origen’s learning, which resounded everywhere, came onesto him onesto make trial of his skill in sacred literature. And per great many heretics, and not a few of the most distinguished philosophers, studied under him diligently, receiving instruction from him not only in divine things, but also mediante secular philosophy. For when he perceived that any persons had superior intelligence he instructed them also con philosophic branches

— con geometry, arithmetic, and other preparatory studies — and then advanced esatto the systems of the philosophers and explained their writings. And he made observations and comments upon each of them, so that he became celebrated as a great philosopher even among the Greeks themselves. And he instructed many of the less learned in the common school branches, saying that these would be giammai small help preciso them con the study and understanding of the Divine Scriptures. On this account he considered it especially necessary for himself puro be skilled per secular and philosophic learning.