Letter from Origen to Africanus
Origen's reply to Julius Africanus, defending Susanna's place among the received scriptures of the church even while engaging seriously with the linguistic objections raised against it. Not scripture -- a scholarly letter, the other half of the earliest known debate over the Apocrypha's status. Translated by Frederick Crombie (1872, Ante-Nicene Christian Library).
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