[345]. John xiv. 2.

[346]. Virtutem suæ conditionis. Seine Schöpferkraft (Schnitzer).

[347]. In id: To that state of the soul in which it gazes purely on the causes of things.

[348]. Diebus quadragesimæ.

[349]. Dæmones.

[350]. Evangelicæ lucernæ lumine diabolicas ignorantiæ tenebras.

[351]. Salvâ fidei Catholicæ regula.

[352]. Comœdiarum ridiculas fabulas.

[353]. The whole of this chapter has been preserved in the original Greek, which is literally translated in corresponding portions on each page, so that the differences between Origen’s own words and the amplifications and alterations of the paraphrase of Rufinus may be at once patent to the reader.

[354]. Natura ipsius arbitrii voluntatisque.