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 esatto him — for coming, one after another, from morning till evening onesto be taught by him, they scarcely gave him time preciso breathe — he divided the multitude. And from those whom he knew well, he selected Heraclas, who was per zealous student of divine things, and sopra other respects verso very learned man, not ignorant of philosophy, and made him his associate mediante the sistema of instruction. He entrusted to 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 learned the Hebrew language, and procured as his own the original Hebrew Scriptures which were durante the hands of the Jews. And mediante accessit puro the well-known translations of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, he discovered certain others which had been concealed from remote times — con what out-of-the-way corners Volte know not — and by his search he brought them to light. Since he did not know the authors, he simply stated that he had found this one in Nicopolis near Ac-tium and that one sopra some other place. Durante 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 verso jar durante Jericho sopra the time of Antoninus, the bruissement 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 holland casino them opposite each other, with the Hebrew text itself. He arranged also separately an edition of Aquila and Symmachus and Theodotion with the Septuagint, mediante the Tetrapla.

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

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

— con geometry, arithmetic, and other preparatory studies — and then advanced to 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 verso great philosopher even among the Greeks themselves. And he instructed many of the less learned in the common school branches, saying that these would be niente affatto small help esatto them con the study and understanding of the Divine Scriptures. On this account he considered it especially necessary for himself preciso be skilled con secular and philosophic learning.