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Origen asserts Christ to be a creature, and maintains universal restitution. Where has he contradicted this?

Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors

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13. Do not tell me that “you have found the same things treated by the same author in other places in a catholic sense,” and thus send me to search through the six thousand books of Origen which you charge the most reverend Bishop Epiphanius with having read; but mention the passages with exactness: nor will this suffice; you must produce the sentences word for word. Origen is no fool, as I well know; he cannot contradict himself. The net result arising from all this calculation is, then, that what you cut out was not due to the heretics, but to Origen himself, and that you translated the bad things he had written because you considered them good; and that both the good and the bad things in the book are to be set to your account, since you approved his writings in the Prologue.

Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf203.division.vi.en.

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