Commentary on Judges

Origen of Alexandria (185–253)

Who are these elders who either came with Joshua/Jesus or after him, if not the very apostles who illumined our hearts by their writings and precepts, even bringing a certain kind of "day" among us from that "true light" in which they were partakers? Whoever, therefore, is enlightened and instructed from the precepts of the apostles and is ordained according to the apostolic rules for the service of the Lord is the very person who is said to serve the Lord in the days of the elders who came after Jesus. Do you wish to see that the apostles also were the "light of the world," just as the Savior "was the true light which illumines every person coming into the world"2? The Lord himself said to them, as it is written in the Gospel, "You are the light of the world." But if the apostles are also the light of the world, then the "days" in which "we serve the Lord" undoubtedly illuminate us through their precepts and commandments.

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