CONTENTS.

[Introductory Notice], [vii]

[Prologue of Rufinus to the De Principiis], [xi]

[ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.]

[Preface], [1]

[BOOK I.]

[Chap. I. On God], [8]

[Chap. II. On Christ], [18]

[Chap. III. On the Holy Spirit], [33]

[Chap. IV. On Defection, or Falling Away], [43]

[Chap. V. On Rational Natures], [44]

[Chap. VI. On the End or Consummation], [53]

[Chap. VII. On Incorporeal and Corporeal Beings], [59]

[Chap. VIII. On the Angels], [65]

[Fragments from the First Book], [71]

[BOOK II.]

[Chap. I. On the World], [72]

[Chap. II. On the Perpetuity of Bodily Nature], [77]

[Chap. III. On the Beginning of the World, and its Causes], [79]

[Chap. IV. The God of the Law and the Prophets, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the same God], [91]

[Chap. V. On Justice and Goodness], [97]

[Chap. VI. On the Incarnation of Christ], [105]

[Chap. VII. On the Holy Spirit], [113]

[Chap. VIII. On the Soul (Anima)], [118]

[Chap. IX. On the World, and the Movements of Rational Creatures, whether good or bad; and on the Causes of them], [126]

[Chap. X. On the Resurrection, and the Judgment, the Fire of Hell, and Punishments], [136]

[Chap. XI. On Counter Promises], [145]

[BOOK III.]

[Preface of Rufinus], [154]

[Chap. I. On the Freedom of the Will], [156]

[Chap. II. On the Opposing Powers], [222]

[Chap. III. On Threefold Wisdom], [237]

[Chap. IV. On Human Temptations], [244]

[Chap. V. That the World took its Beginning in Time], [253]

[Chap. VI. On the End of the World], [262]

[BOOK IV.]

[Chap. I. That the Scriptures are divinely inspired], [274]

[INDEX], [357]

[Letter to Origen from Africanus about the History of Susanna], [369]

[Letter from Origen to Africanus], [371]

[Letter from Origen to Gregory], [388]

[ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS—]

[Book I.], [393]