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Origen, De Principiis I.9: Fragment from the First Book of the de Principiis

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Translated by Jerome in His Epistle to Avitus.

“It is an evidence of great negligence and sloth, that each one should fall down to such (a pitch of degradation), and be so emptied, as that, in coming to evil, he may be fastened to the gross body of irrational beasts of burden.”

Reproduced in full. Translation: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885), public domain (Public domain).

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