The Scripture, which tells us not to be angry at all, and which says in the thirty-seventh Psalm, Cease from anger, and forsake wrath, and which commands us by the mouth of Paul to put off all these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication, would not involve God in the same passion from which it would have us to be altogether free.
OrigenWhat each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.
OrigenThis also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
OrigenWhen anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
OrigenGod puts Christ's enemies as a footstool beneath His feet, for their salvation as well as their destruction.
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