De Principiis: Preface

Origen's own preface to De Principiis, laying out the church's received 'rule of faith' -- the core points every Christian teacher must hold -- before turning to the many questions scripture leaves open for careful reasoning, which the rest of the work explores. Not scripture. Translated by Frederick Crombie (1869, Ante-Nicene Christian Library); see the Rufinus prologue for this text's Latin-paraphrase transmission.

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