Origen
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Ūrījānīs · اوريجانيس
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Christian theologian listed among sources on nations practicing circumcision.
Wherefore there is reason to believe that the numerous nations, who, besides the Israelites, practiced circumcision, and who are mentioned by Herodotus, Strabo, Philo, Justin, Origen, Clemens, Alexandrinus, Epiphanius, and Jerom, were descended from Ishmael, Esau, or the posterity of Keturah.
For this same Origen says, that Bees were given by God as a pattern for men to follow in conducting just, regular, and necessary wars;
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The Alexandrian who is reported to have taught the soul's priority to the body while still calling it created, a position the chapter's preferred view rejects.
As for the Greeks among the people of the Church, they rejected these two opinions, I mean the eternity of souls (*nufūs*) and their coming after the bodies (2), and said rather that all of them came to be together.
And Ūrījānīs held that souls are prior to the bodies, but he held that they are created, not as the pagans held,
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Early Christian theologian said to have castrated himself based on a literal reading of a passage in the Gospel of Matthew.
Origen ought certainly to have been punished, who submitted to this operation, from the rigid interpretation of that passage in St.