He investigated also the works of other translators of the Sacred Scriptures besides the Seventy

BUT when he saw that he had not time for the deeper study of divine things, and for the investigation and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, and also for the instruction of those who came puro him — for coming, one after another, from morning till evening sicuro be taught by him, they scarcely gave him time puro breathe — he divided the multitude. And from those whom he knew well, he selected Heraclas, who was a zealous student of divine things, and con other respects verso very learned man, not ignorant of philosophy, and made him his associate in the work of instruction. He entrusted onesto him the elementary allenamento of beginners, but reserved for himself the teaching of those who were farther advanced.

So earnest and assiduous was Origen’s research into the divine words that he learned the Hebrew language, and procured as his own the original Hebrew Scriptures which were per the hands of the Jews. And in adjonction onesto the well-known translations of Cima, Symmachus, and Theodotion, he discovered un others which had been concealed from remote times — durante what out-of-the-way corners I know not — and by his search he brought them to light. Since he did not know the authors, he simply stated that he had found this one con Nicopolis near Ac-tium and that one con some other place. Mediante the Hexapla of the Psalms, after the four prominent translations, he adds not only per fifth, p but also per sixth and seventh. He states of one of these that he found it per a jar con Jericho per the time of Antoninus, the affranchit of Severus.

He thus left us the copies of the so-called Hexapla

Having collected all of these, he divided them into sections https://leovegascasinos.org/it/ , and placed them opposite each other, with the Hebrew text itself. He arranged also separately an edition of Cima and Symmachus and Theodotion with the Septuagint, con the Tetrapla.

But the heresy of the Ebionites, as it is called, asserts that Christ was the son of Joseph and Mary, considering him verso mere man, and insists strongly on keeping the law con verso Jewish manner, as we have seen already durante this historymentaries of Symmachus are still extant durante which he appears onesto support this heresy by attacking the Gospel of Matthew. Origen states that he obtained these and other commentaries of Symmachus on the Scriptures from a indivis Juliana, who, he says, received the books by inheritance from Symmachus himself.

As to these translators it should be stated that Symmachus was an Ebionite

Origen’s presentation of the truth, and, as if his mind were illumined by light, he accepted the orthodox doctrine of the Church. Many others also, drawn by the desiderio of Origen’s learning, which resounded everywhere, came puro him onesto make trial of his skill durante sacred literature. And a great many heretics, and not a few of the most distinguished philosophers, studied under him diligently, receiving instruction from him not only mediante divine things, but also per secular philosophy. For when he perceived that any persons had superior intelligence he instructed them also con philosophic branches

— mediante geometry, arithmetic, and other preparatory studies — and then advanced sicuro the systems of the philosophers and explained their writings. And he made observations and comments upon each of them, so that he became celebrated as a great philosopher even among the Greeks themselves. And he instructed many of the less learned per the common school branches, saying that these would be giammai small help sicuro them sopra the study and understanding of the Divine Scriptures. On this account he considered it especially necessary for himself to be skilled mediante secular and philosophic learning.