# Origen, A Son Of Leonides The Martyr, Greatly Tormented At Alexandria, For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, And Banished To Cesarea Statonis, About The Year 254. · Page 2 of 2

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In refutation of those who accuse Origen of apostasy,
A. Mellinus writes (though he does not wish
to defend his misconceptions or errors, as he calls
them): “If this account of the apostasy of Origen
were true, Porphyrius, who wrote at this time
against the Christians, and was especially bitter
against Origen, would very probably have mentioned
it in his writings, and this the more so, as
he dared unjustly to accuse Ammonius, Origen’s
teacher, of Apostasy: how much more then, would
he have exerted himself against Origen, if the latter
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had really apostatized; whereas he acknowledges
that Origen lived as a Christian to the end.” A little
further on he writes: “As regards his Christian
life and steadfast confession of the name of Christ,
we have no reason to call it in question, since even
his enemies bear him a good testimony in this respect.”
Abr. Mell., 1st book, fol. 78, col. 1, from
Porphyry.



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