Commentary on the Gospel of John
Origen · 232 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
3 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
Sentences remembered from it
The first sustained commentary on a book of the New Testament in Christian history, begun at Alexandria about 226 at the request of Ambrosius and continued at Caesarea after Origen was driven from Egypt. Its opening book runs through the titles Scripture gives to Christ — light, resurrection, way, truth, life, door, shepherd, king, teacher, son, vine, bread, sword, lamb, wisdom, righteousness, the rod, the flower, the stone — and argues that no one of them exhausts him and that he is each of them for somebody. Of the ten books this volume carries, six survive: I, II, fragments of the fourth, V, VI and X.