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 to 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 per other respects per very learned man, not ignorant of philosophy, and made him his associate per the rete informatica of instruction. He entrusted sicuro him the elementary training 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 JetTon learned the Hebrew language, and procured as his own the original Hebrew Scriptures which were sopra the hands of the Jews. And mediante addenda preciso the well-known translations of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, he discovered certain others which had been concealed from remote times — per what out-of-the-way corners Volte know not — and by his search he brought them sicuro light. Since he did not know the authors, he simply stated that he had found this one durante Nicopolis near Ac-tium and that one durante some other place. Per the Hexapla of the Psalms, after the four prominent translations, he adds not only a fifth, p but also verso sixth and seventh. He states of one of these that he found it durante per jar durante Jericho per the time of Antoninus, the cri of Severus.

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

Having collected all of these, he divided them into sections, and placed them opposite each other, with the Hebrew text itself. He arranged also separately an edition of Aquila and Symmachus and Theodotion with the Septuagint, durante the Tetrapla.

But the heresy of the Ebionites, as it is called, asserts that Christ was the affranchit of Joseph and Mary, considering him a mere man, and insists strongly on keeping the law in per Jewish manner, as we have seen already in this historymentaries of Symmachus are still extant in 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 insecable Juliana, who, he says, received the books by inheritance from Symmachus himself.

As preciso 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 bramosia of Origen’s learning, which resounded everywhere, came onesto him preciso make trial of his skill mediante sacred literature. And per great many heretics, and not verso few of the most distinguished philosophers, studied under him diligently, receiving instruction from him not only durante divine things, but also mediante secular philosophy. For when he perceived that any persons had superior intelligence he instructed them also in philosophic branches

— durante geometry, arithmetic, and other preparatory studies — and then advanced esatto 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 sopra the common school branches, saying that these would be in nessun caso small help esatto them durante the study and understanding of the Divine Scriptures. On this account he considered it especially necessary for himself onesto be skilled in secular and philosophic learning.