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Preface.

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Your letter is full of falsehood and violence. I will try not to take the same tone.

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Why cannot we differ as friends? Why do you, by threats of death, compel me to answer?

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Your shameful taunt that I wished to get copies of your Apology by bribing your Secretary is an imputation to me of practices which are your own.

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Your shameful taunt that I wished to get copies of your Apology by bribing your Secretary is an imputation to me of practices which are your own.

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Eusebius should not have accused you; but your charges against him will not stand.

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You taunt me with boasting of my eloquence. Will you boast of your illiteracy?

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You wish first to praise, then to amend me, but both with fisticuffs; and make it impossible for me to keep silence.

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You wish first to praise, then to amend me, but both with fisticuffs; and make it impossible for me to keep silence.

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Why cannot you join with me in condemning Origen, and so put an end to our quarrel?

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The assertion that you had only two days for your answer is a fiction.

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Your translation, contrariwise to my Commentaries, vouches for the soundness of Origen.

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You try to shield Origen by falsely attributing the Apology for him to Pamphilus.

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In my Commentaries my quotation of opposite opinions shows that neither is mine.

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Had you translated honestly, you would not have had Origen's heresies imputed to you.

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You say the Bishops of Italy accept your views on the Resurrection. I doubt it.

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You rashly say that you will agree to whatever Theophilus lays down. You have to consider your friendship for Isidore now his enemy.

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You speak of the Egyptian Bishop Paul. We received him, though an Origenist, as a stranger; and he has united himself to the orthodox faith. Not only Theophilus but the Emperors condemn Origen.

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You speak of the Egyptian Bishop Paul. We received him, though an Origenist, as a stranger; and he has united himself to the orthodox faith. Not only Theophilus but the Emperors condemn Origen.

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Against Vigilantius I wrote only what was right. I knew who had stirred him up against me.

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As to the letter of Pope Anastasius condemning you, you will find that it is genuine.

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Siricius who is dead may have written in your favour; Anastasius who is living writes to the East against you.

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My departure from Rome for the East had nothing blameable in it as you insinuate.

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Epiphanius, it is true, gave you the kiss of peace; but he showed afterwards that he had come to distrust you.

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When we parted as friends I believed you a true believer; no one was sent to Rome to injure you.

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You swear that you did not write my pretended retractation. Your style betrays you, and I have given a full answer about my translations already.

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You bid me beware of falsification and treachery. You warn me against yourself.

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There is nothing inconsistent in praising a man for some things and blaming him in others. You have done it in my case.

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My ignorance of many natural phenomena is no excuse for your ignorance as to the origin of souls. You ought, according to your boasting dream to know everything. The thing of most importance was forgotten in your cargo of Eastern wares.

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My ignorance of many natural phenomena is no excuse for your ignorance as to the origin of souls. You ought, according to your boasting dream to know everything. The thing of most importance was forgotten in your cargo of Eastern wares.

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My ignorance of many natural phenomena is no excuse for your ignorance as to the origin of souls. You ought, according to your boasting dream to know everything. The thing of most importance was forgotten in your cargo of Eastern wares.

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My ignorance of many natural phenomena is no excuse for your ignorance as to the origin of souls. You ought, according to your boasting dream to know everything. The thing of most importance was forgotten in your cargo of Eastern wares.

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Your dream was a boast: mine of which you accuse me humbled me.

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It was not I who first disclosed your heresies, but Epiphanius long ago and Aterbius before him.

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As to our translations of the Περὶ ᾽Αρχῶν, yours was doing harm, and mine was necessary in self-defence. You should be glad that heresy is exposed.

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As to our translations of the Περὶ ᾽Αρχῶν, yours was doing harm, and mine was necessary in self-defence. You should be glad that heresy is exposed.

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As to our translations of the Περὶ ᾽Αρχῶν, yours was doing harm, and mine was necessary in self-defence. You should be glad that heresy is exposed.

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Your Apology for Origen did not save him but involved you in heresy.

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My friendly letter was to prevent discord: the other to crush false opinions.

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Pythagoras was rightly quoted by me. I produce some of his sayings.

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Pythagoras was rightly quoted by me. I produce some of his sayings.

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You threaten me with destruction. I will not reply in the same way. Personalities should be excluded from controversies of faith.

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You threaten me with destruction. I will not reply in the same way. Personalities should be excluded from controversies of faith.

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The way of peace is through the wisdom taught in the Book of Proverbs, and through unity in the faith.

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The way of peace is through the wisdom taught in the Book of Proverbs, and through unity in the faith.

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