Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Origen on Jesus and Wisdom 7:25 in his Commentary on Hebrews

  

So also Wisdom, since He proceeds from God, is generated from the very substance of God. Under the figure of a bodily effluence, nevertheless, He is also called a kind of pure and clean effluence of the glory of the Almighty. Both of these similes show with great clarity that there is a community of substance between the Son and the father. For an effluence seems to be ομουσιος, that is, of one substance with that body from which it is either an effluence or an exhalation. (Origen, Commentaries on Hebrews, c. A.D. 254, in The Faith of the Early Fathers, 3 vols. [trans. William A. Jurgens; Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, 1970], 1:215)

 

The following is a scan of PG 14:1308: