Gregory Thaumaturgus, The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 6 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1886), public domain.
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- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 1 — For Eight Years Gregory Has Given Up the Practice of Oratory, Being Busied with the Study Chiefly of Roman Law and the Latin Language. Argument I.—For Eight Years Gregory Has Given Up the Practice of Oratory, Being…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 2 — Argument II.—He Essays to Speak of the Well-Nigh Divine Endowments of Origen in His Presence, into Whose Hands He Avows Himself to Have Been Led in a Way Beyond All His Expectation. But we, like any of the poor,…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 3 — Argument III.—He is Stimulated to Speak of Him by the Longing of a Grateful Mind. To the Utmost of His Ability He Thinks He Ought to Thank Him. From God are the Beginnings of All Blessings; And to Him Adequate Thanks…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 4 — Argument IV.—The Son Alone Knows How to Praise the Father Worthily. In Christ and by Christ Our Thanksgivings Ought to Be Rendered to the Father. Gregory Also Gives Thanks to His Guardian Angel, Because He Was…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 5 — Argument V.—Here Gregory Interweaves the Narrative of His Former Life. His Birth of Heathen Parents is Stated. In the Fourteenth Year of His Age He Loses His Father. He is Dedicated to the Study of Eloquence and Law.…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 6 — Argument VI.—The Arts by Which Origen Studies to Keep Gregory and His Brother Athenodorus with Him, Although It Was Almost Against Their Will; And the Love by Which Both are Taken Captive. Of Philosophy, the…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 7 — Argument VII.—The Wonderful Skill with Which Origen Prepares Gregory and Athenodorus for Philosophy. The Intellect of Each is Exercised First in Logic, and the Mere Attention to Words is Contemned. But after he had…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 8 — Then in Due Succession He Instructs Them in Physics, Geometry, and Astronomy. Argument VIII.—Then in Due Succession He Instructs Them in Physics, Geometry, and Astronomy. Nor did he confine his efforts merely to that…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 9 — Argument IX.—But He Imbues Their Minds, Above All, with Ethical Science; And He Does Not Confine Himself to Discoursing on the Virtues in Word, But He Rather Confirms His Teaching by His Acts. Moreover, as to those…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 10 — Hence the Mere Word-Sages are Confuted, Who Say and Yet Act Not. Now I beg of the philosophers of this present time, both those whom I have known personally myself, and those of whom I have heard by report from…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 11 — Argument XI.—Origen is the First and the Only One that Exhorts Gregory to Add to His Acquirements the Study of Philosophy, and Offers Him in a Certain Manner an Example in Himself. Of Justice, Prudence, Temperance,…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 12 — Argument XII.—Gregory Disallows Any Attainment of the Virtues on His Part. Piety is Both the Beginning and the End, and Thus It is the Parent of All the Virtues. It is true, indeed that in consequence of our dull and…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 13 — Argument XIII.—The Method Which Origen Used in His Theological and Metaphysical Instructions. He Commends the Study of All Writers, the Atheistic Alone Excepted. The Marvellous Power of Persuasion in Speech. The…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 14 — Argument XIV.—Whence the Contentions of Philosophers Have Sprung. Against Those Who Catch at Everything that Meets Them, and Give It Credence, and Cling to It. Origen Was in the Habit of Carefully Reading and…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 15 — Argument XV.—The Case of Divine Matters. Only God and His Prophets are to Be Heard in These. The Prophets and Their Auditors are Acted on by the Same Afflatus. Origen’s Excellence in the Interpretation of Scripture.…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 16 — Argument XVI.—Gregory Laments His Departure Under a Threefold Comparison; Likening It to Adam’s Departure Out of Paradise. To the Prodigal Son’s Abandonment of His Father’s House, and to the Deportation of the Jews…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 17 — Gregory Consoles Himself. But why should I utter such lamentations? There lives still the Saviour of all men, even of the half-dead and the despoiled, the Protector and Physician for all, the Word, that sleepless…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 18 — Peroration, and Apology for the Oration. Wherefore let me now have done with this address, which I have had the boldness to deliver in a presence wherein boldness least became me. Yet this address is one which, I…vatican.va
- The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen Chapter 19 — Apostrophe to Origen, and Therewith the Leave-Taking, and the Urgent Utterance of Prayer. Argument XIX.—Apostrophe to Origen, and Therewith the Leave-Taking, and the Urgent Utterance of Prayer. But, O dear soul,…vatican.va
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Genesis 48:15 · 1 Samuel 18:1 · Isaiah 22:22 · Luke 21:2 · Ephesians 3:8 · Ephesians 3:9 · Colossians 2:8 · Revelation 3:7