# Notice Concerning The Writings Of Origen With Reference To Baptism.

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There are a few passages, namely, Homil. 8, on
the 12th and 13th chapters of Leviticus; Homil. 14,
on the 2d chap, of Luke; Comment. on the 6th
chap. of the Epistle to the Romans, from which
some who at this day uphold infant baptism suppose
they can draw something to show that Origen was
not a stranger to their views, but that he sanctioned
them. But various eminent writers deny, yea, completely
refute this, it being proven that these passages
do not belong to Origen, but to Ruffinus, the
priest at Aquileia, who, it is stated, more than one
hundred and fifty years after Origen’s time translated
the works of the latter from the Greek into
Latin, adding from his own, that is, out of his own
mind the abovementioned passages, and, on the
other hand, leaving out other matters. To this explanation
we assent. See Ruffinus’ prefatory and
concluding remarks on Origen’s Commentary to the
Epistle to the Romans. Also, Erasmus’ account of
the life of Origen, prefaced to the works of the latter,
according to J. Mehrn., Bapt. Hist., pp. 283
and 291. Also, H. Mont. Nietigheyd van den
Kinder-doop, pages 29–34, and 42, 43.

Besides this, various gross errors have of old
been imputed to Origen, as, for instance, that he
believed, that the evil spirits would ultimately be
saved. However, he himself desires this in a certain
letter written to those of Alexandria, in which he
complains of the shamelessness of his adversaries,
who dared in his life time to defame him with slanders
which not even an insane man would utter.
What, then, must have been the treatment his writings
received after his death!

“We may plainly see,” says Jacob Mehrning,
“from what we still have of the writings of Origen,
that many ignorant and grossly erring spirits have
sought to palm off to the simple-minded, their own
whims under the name of this eminent man, who
by Jerome (in Prefatione ante Ezechidem) is called
the second master of the church after the apostles.”
Bapt. Hist. pp. 288 and 289. Also, H. Mont.
Nietigh., pages 35, 36.



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