Apology for Origen: with On the Falsification of the Books of Origen by Rufinus

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by  Pamphilus

THE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
VOLUME 120
THE FATHERS
OF THE CHURCH
A NEW TRANSLATION
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ST. PAMPHILUS
APOLOGY FOR ORIGEN
WITH THE LETTER OF RUFINUS
ON THE FALSIFICATION OF
THE BOOKS OF ORIGEN
Translated by
THOMAS P. SCHECK
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
Washington, D.C.
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Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pamphilus, Presbyter of Caesarea, 3rd/4th cent.
[Apologia pro Origene. English]
Apology for Origen / St. Pamphilus. With the letter of
Rufinus on the falsification of the books of Origen ;
translated by Thomas P. Scheck.
p. cm. — (The fathers of the church ; v. 120)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-8132-0120-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Origen—Early works to 1800. I. Scheck, Thomas P.,
1964– II. Rufinus, of Aquileia, 345–410. De
adulteratione librorum Origenis. English. III. Title.
IV. Series.
BR65.O68P3613 2010
270.1092--dc22
2009046095
This translation is dedicated to the sacred memory
of my silent teachers and Pamphilus’s intellectual
descendants: Erasmus of Rotterdam (d. 1536),
priest, and Henri de Lubac (d. 1991), Cardinal.
And to my Wiglaf and very dear friend,
Jay Martin of South Bend, Indiana.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgment ix
Abbreviations xi
Select Bibliography xiii
Introduction 3
PAMPHILUS: APOLOGY
FOR ORIGEN 35
Preface of Rufinus 35
Apology for Origen 39
RUFINUS: ON THE
FALSIFICATION OF THE BOOKS
OF ORIGEN 123
INDICES
General Index 141
Index of Holy Scripture 144
Index of Origen’s Works 148
vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The opportunity to translate this work of Pamphilus was given
by Ralph McInerny, who awarded me a post-doctoral research
fellowship in the University of Notre Dame’s Jacques Maritain
Center. I am most grateful to him for those two years of re-
search and teaching from 2004 to 2006.
ix
ABBREVIATIONS
Titles of Works, Journals, and Series Cited
ACW Ancient Christian Writers
CH Church History
CWE Collected Works of Erasmus
DCB A Dictionary of Christian Biography
EEC Encyclopedia of the Early Church, 2 vols.
FC Fontes Christiani
FOTC Fathers of the Church
JTS Journal of Theological Studies
RHE Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique
SC Sources chrétiennes
SP Studia patristica
SPCK Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
WHTO Westminster Handbook to Origen
Sigla
< > A ngle brackets indicating a word, phrase, or
sentence that is given special editorial consider-
ation in the Amacker and Junod text, SC 464
[ ] Square brackets indicating a word or phrase that
has been supplied by the present translator
Numerals enclosed by square brackets refer to numbered
citations from Origen’s writings that are listed by the edi-
tors of SC 464 and are also identified in footnotes both in
that edition and in the present volume.
xi
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Texts and Translations
Pamphilus and Eusebius of Caesarea. Apologie pour Origène. Suivi de Rufin
d’Aquilée: Sur la falsification des livres d’Origène. Vol. 1. Critical text,
translation, and notes by R. Amacker and É. Junod. SC 464. Paris:
Cerf, 2002.
Pamphilus and Eusebius of Caesarea. Apologie pour Origène. Suivi de Rufin
d’Aquilée: Sur la falsification des livres d’Origène. Vol. 2. Study, philo-
logical commentary, and index by R. Amacker and É. Junod. SC 465.
Paris: Cerf, 2002.
Pamphilus of Caesarea. Apologia pro Origene/Apologie für Origenes. Trans-
lated by G. Röwekamp. Fontes Christiani 80. Turnhout: Brepols,
2005.
Photius. The Library of Photius. Volume 1. Translations of Christian Lit-
erature. Series I: Greek Texts. Translated by J. H. Freese. London:
SPCK, 1920.
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Ayres, Lewis. Nicaea and its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century
Trinitarian Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Behr, J. Formation of Christian Theology. Volume 2: The Nicene Faith, Part
One: True God of True God. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary
Press, 2004.
Berthold, G. “Origen and the Holy Spirit.” In Origeniana Quinta. Edited
by R. Daly. Leuven: Peeters, 1992. Pp. 444–48.
Bianchi, U. “Origen’s Treatment of the Soul and the Debate over
Metensomatosis.” In Origeniana Quarta. Edited by L. Lies. Innsbruck:
Tyrolia-Verlag, 1987. Pp. 270–81.
Bienert, W. “Die Älteste Apologie für Origenes? Zur Frage nach dem
Verhältnis zwischen Photius, cod. 117, und der Apologie des
Pamphilus.” In Origeniana Quarta. Edited by L. Lies. Innsbruck:
Tyrolia-Verlag, 1987. Pp. 123–27.
Clark, E. The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early
Christian Debate. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Dechow, Jon F. “The Heresy Charges against Origen.” In Origeniana
xiii