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Origen

Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book II

Contents

“And the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

In What Way the Logos is God. Errors to Be Avoided on This Question.

Various Relations of the Logos to Men.

That the Logos is One, Not Many. Of the Word, Faithful and True, and of His White Horse.

He (This One) Was in the Beginning with God.

How the Word is the Maker of All Things, and Even the Holy Spirit Was Made Through Him.

Of Things Not Made Through the Logos.

Heracleon's View that the Logos is Not the Agent of Creation.

That the Logos Present in Us is Not Responsible for Our Sins.

“That Which Was Made Was Life in Him, and the Life Was the Light of Men.” This Involves the Paradox that What Does Not Derive Life from the Logos Does Not Live at All.

How No One is Righteous or Can Truly Be Said to Live in Comparison with God.

Is the Saviour All that He Is, to All?

How the Life in the Logos Comes After the Beginning.

How the Natures of Men are Not So Fixed from the First, But that They May Pass from Darkness to Light.

Heracleon's View that the Lord Brought Life Only to the Spiritual. Refutation of This.

The Life May Be the Light of Others Besides.

The Higher Powers are Men; And Christ is Their Light Also.

How God Also is Light, But in a Different Way; And How Life Came Before Light.

The Life Here Spoken of is the Higher Life, that of Reason.

Different Kinds of Light; And of Darkness.

Christ is Not, Like God, Quite Free from Darkness: Since He Bore Our Sins.

How the Darkness Failed to Overtake the Light.

There is a Divine Darkness Which is Not Evil, and Which Ultimately Becomes Light.

John the Baptist Was Sent. From Where? His Soul Was Sent from a Higher Region.

Argument from the Prayer of Joseph, to Show that the Baptist May Have Been an Angel Who Became a Man.

John is Voice, Jesus is Speech. Relation of These Two to Each Other.

Significance of the Names of John and of His Parents.

The Prophets Bore Witness to Christ and Foretold Many Things Concerning Him.

The Six Testimonies of the Baptist Enumerated. Jesus' “Come and See.” Significance of the Tenth Hour.

How John Was a Witness of Christ, and Specially of “The Light.”