Philocalia

Origen of Alexandria (185–253)

1. As "oracles."

2. Matt. x. 18; cf. Mark xiii. 9.

3. Matt. vii. 22 f.; cf. Luke xiii. 26.

4. Cf. Gen. xlix. 10.

5. Hos. iii. 4.

6. For the Heb. teraphim the Sept. has delon. Schleusner shows that this word was used for the clear or shining stones, the Urim and Thummim. The teraphim were idolatrous means of divination (Pusey). The Seventy appear to have had in view the use of the Urim and Thummim by the high priest.

7. Gen. xlix. 10.

8. Deut. xxxii. 21.

9. 1 Cor. i. 26 ff.

10. Ps. xlv. (xliv.) 1 f.

11. Ps. lxxii. (lxxi.) 7 f.

12. Cf. Isa. vii. 14; Matt. i. 215.

13. Isa. viii. 11 f.

14. Matt. ii. 6; cf. Mic. v. 2.

15. Dan. ix. 24.

16. Job iii. 8.

17. Luke x. 19.

18. Cf. Heb. ii. 4.

19. Cf. 2 Cor. iii. 16; Heb. x. 1.

20. 2 Cor. iv. 7,

21. Or, "being stored up in the books (of the Bible)," etc.

22. 1 Cor. ii. 4 f.

23. Heb. vi. 1.

24. 1 Cor. ii. 6 f.

25. Rom. xvi. 25 ff.

26. 2 Tim. i. 10.

27. Isa. lxi. i.

28. Isa. xlv. 13.

29. Zech. ix. 10.

30. Isa. vii. 15.

31. Isa. xi. 6 f.

32. Jer. xv. 14.

33. Ex. xx. 5.

34. Cf. 1 Sam. xv. 11, 17, 35.

35. Isa. xlv. 7.

36. Amos iii. 6.

37. Mic. i. 12.

38. 1 Sam. xvi. 14.

39. World-builder----Creator.

40. Cf. Gen. xix. 30 ff.

41. Cf. Gen. xvi.

42. Cf Gen. xxix. 21 ff.

43. Cf. Ex. xxv. ff.

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