Origen of Alexandria — Commentary on Scripture

1 Corinthians 15:27

Christ the Lord himself will instruct those who are able to receive him in his character of wisdom, after their preliminary training in his holy virtues, and will reign with them until such time as he subjects them to the Father who subjected all things to him. When they have been rendered capable of receiving God, then God will be to them “all in all.”

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.9

1 Corinthians 15:28

When “he shall have completed” his “work” and brought his whole creation to the height of perfection, then he is said to be “subjected” in these whom he subjected to the Father. In these “he finished the work that God had given him that God may be all in all.”

HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 7.6

1 Corinthians 15:28

As long as I am not subjected to the Father, neither is he said to be “subjected” to the Father. Not that he himself is in need of subjection before the Father, but for me, in whom he has not yet completed his work, he is said not to be subjected, for “we are the body of Christ and members in part.”.

HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 7.4

1 Corinthians 15:28

God will be all things in each person in such a way that everything which the reasoning mind can feel or understand or think will be all God. When purified from all the dregs of its vices and utterly cleared from every cloud of wickedness, the mind will no longer be conscious of anything besides or other than God. That mind will think of God and see God and hold God. God will be the mode and measure of its every movement. In this way God will be all in all.

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.3

1 Corinthians 15:28

But the heretics, not understanding (I cannot tell why) the apostle’s meaning contained in these words, deprecate using the term subjection in regard to the Son.… Such men do not understand that the subjection of Christ to the Father reveals the blessedness of our perfection and announces the crowning glory of the work undertaken by him.

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.5.7

1 Corinthians 15:33

We see quiet and respectable men who, when they have become associated with turbulent and shameless people, have their good manners corrupted by evil conversations. They are turned into men of the same sort as those who are steeped in every kind of witness. This sometimes happens to men of mature age, who prove that they have lived more chastely in youth than when advanced years had granted them the opportunity of a freer life.

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.1.5

1 Corinthians 15:37

The power which exists in a grain of wheat refashions and restores the grain, after its corruption and death, into a body with stalk and ear.

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.10.3

1 Corinthians 15:40

Even among earthly bodies there are no small differences. Take the human race, for example. Some are Greeks and some are barbarians, and among the barbarians, some are wilder than others. Some have higher laws. Some lower ones, and some follow savage customs which are not laws at all.

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.9.3

1 Corinthians 15:44

It is from the natural body that the power and grace of the resurrection calls forth the spiritual body, when it changes it from dishonor to glory.

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.10.1

1 Corinthians 15:44

The quality of a spiritual body is something such as will make a fitting habitation not only for all saints and perfected souls but also for that “whole creation” which is to be “delivered from the bondage of corruption.”

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.4

1 Corinthians 15:44

In regard to our bodily nature we must understand that there is not one body which we now use in lowliness and corruption and weakness and a different one which we are to use hereafter in incorruption and power and glory. Rather this same body, having cast off the weaknesses of its present existence, will be transformed into a thing of glory and made spiritual, with the result that what was a vessel of dishonor shall itself be purified and become a vessel of honor and a habitation of blessedness.

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 3.6.6

1 Corinthians 15:48

If you remain in what is of the earth, you will be turned away in the end. You must be changed yourself, you must be converted, you must be made “heavenly.”

HOMILIES ON GENESIS 9

1 Corinthians 15:49

You bore at that time “the image of the earthly.” But now since these things have been heard, having been cleansed from the whole earthly mass and weight by the Word of God, make the “image of the heavenly” shine brightly in you.

HOMILIES ON GENESIS 13.4

1 John 1:5

God is light, according to John. The only-begotten Son therefore is the brightness of that light, proceeding from God without separation, as brightness from light, and lightening the whole creation.

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1.2.7

1 John 2:1

Let us consider whether the title advocate (“paraclete”) means one thing when applied to the Savior and another when applied to the Holy Spirit. In regard to the Savior “paraclete” seems to mean intercessor, for in Greek it bears both meanings, comforter and intercessor, but according to the phrase which follows, in which it is said that he is the propitiation for our sins, it seems that it must mean intercessor, because he intercedes with the Father for our sins. When used of the Holy Spirit, however, the word paraclete ought to be understood as comforter, because he provides comfort for the souls to whom he opens and reveals a consciousness of spiritual knowledge.

ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.7.4

1 John 2:1

How could Jesus have become an advocate and propitiation without the power of God which completely destroys our weakness, a power furnished by Jesus which flows in the souls of believers?

COMMENTARY ON JOHN 1.241

1 John 2:11

Whoever does evil and hates his brother has extinguished the lamp of love, and therefore he walks in darkness.

SERMONS ON LEVITICUS 13.2.4

1 John 2:14

In my opinion, if someone is a child inside, then he will appear to be a child on the outside as well, however old he is. The same is true of someone who is an overgrown teenager. But it also follows from this that anyone can be an adult and parent on the inside, whatever age they may be.

CATENA

1 John 3:8

Insofar as we commit sins, we have not yet put off the generation of the devil, even if we are thought to believe in Jesus. Everyone who is not of the devil does not commit sin.

COMMENTARY ON JOHN 20.103-4

1 John 3:9

When we are persuaded by the devil to sin, we receive his seed. But when we go on to complete the work which he urged, then he has begotten us, for through sin we are born to him as children.

SERMONS ON EXODUS 8.6