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Origen, on Ezek 16:45
Origen · c. A.D. 184–253
Ezek 16:45 · Douay-Rheims
“Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.”
On this verse:
“To put it more clearly, the origin of all evils is the multitude, but the origin of good things is to retire from the crowd and to confine oneself to the solitary life.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.