Primary source · Koine Greek
The Panegyric to Origen
Gregory Thaumaturgus · AD 238, at Caesarea
What this text is
A graduating student's thanksgiving to the greatest teacher of the age — the fullest surviving picture of how Origen actually taught: logic, physics, ethics, and the scriptures last of all.
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Public-domain translations
S. D. F. Salmond (ANF, 1886)
He did not aim merely at getting round us by any kind of reasoning; but his desire was, with a benignant and most benevolent purpose, to save us… like some spark lighting upon our inmost soul, love was kindled and burst into flame within us.
Manuscript witnesses
Paris gr. 616 and the Origen-corpus tradition
medievalThe Address of Thanks transmitted beside Origen's works, as its subject would have wished.
Patrologia Graeca, vol. 10 (Migne)
1857Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.
Provenance
Caesarea in Palestine, c. AD 238 — the farewell to Origen
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Grégoire le Thaumaturge: Remerciement à Origène (SC 148)Henri Crouzel, 1969Critical edition with French translation.
- St. Gregory Thaumaturgus: Life and Works (FOC 98)Michael Slusser, 1998English translation.