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Origen, on Jude 1:3
Origen · c. A.D. 184–253
Jude 1:3 · Douay-Rheims
“Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.”
On this verse:
“If we wish woodenly to preserve unchanged the good things once given to the saints and will not adapt the events of the historical account, we will by such action appear to do something like what the heretics do, by not preserving the harmony of the narrative of the Scriptures from beginning to end.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.