2. Our Saviour’s soul was united to the Word, before his conception, and before he was born of the Holy Virgin.
3. The body of our Saviour Jesus Christ was first formed entire in the Virgin’s womb; and afterwards his soul, which long before had been united to the Word, came and was joined to it.
4. The Word of God has been successively united with all the angelical natures; insomuch that it has been a cherub, seraph, and all the celestial virtues, one after another.
5. After the resurrection, the bodies of men will be of a spherical figure, and not of their present erect stature.
6. The heavens, sun, moon, and stars, are animated bodies, and have an intelligent soul.
7. In future ages, our Saviour Jesus Christ will be crucified for the salvation of the devils, as he has already been for that of men.
8. The power of God is not infinite, and was so exhausted in the creation of things, that he has no more left.
9. The punishment of the devils, and of the damned, will continue only for a certain limited time.
These nine errors are distinctly recited by the second Council of Constantinople, at the end of a letter of the emperor Justinian against Origen. The recital of them is immediately followed by an anathema against Origen, and all who maintained his opinions: in which it is remarkable, that the council excommunicated Origen near three hundred years after his death.
The heresy of the Origenists spread widely in Egypt, and especially among the monks. Several eminent bishops opposed them, particularly Theophilus, bishop of Alexandria, who, in the year 399, assembled a council in that city, in which the monks inhabiting the mountain of Nitria were condemned as Origenists.