The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time, 3rd Ed. Vol. 1Bower, Archibald
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The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time, 3rd Ed. Vol. 1
Bower, Archibald
Catholic Church -- History; Papacy -- History; Popes -- Biography
In the _Periarchon_ were contained, without all doubt, many unfound and
unwarrantable Notions, and _Ruffinus_ corrected those only that related
to the Trinity. _He corrected_, says _Jerom_, _what_ Origen _had
impiously written concerning the Trinity, being well apprised it would
have given great Offence at_ Rome. _But as to his other Errors, those
especially concerning the Fall of the Angels, and the first Man, the
Resurrection, the World or Worlds of_ Epicurus, _the Restoration of all
Things_, &c. _he either left them, as he found them in the Original, or
confirmed them with Reasons borrowed from the Comment of_ Didymus, _an
avowed Defender of_ Origen. _Thus he declared himself a Catholic with
respect to the Trinity; that in other Points the Reader might not be
aware of him as an Heretic_[1358].
[Sidenote: Ruffinus_’s Answers_.]
In Answer to this Charge, _Ruffinus_ declared, that it was never his
Intention to correct all the Errors that were ascribed to _Origen_; that
the Declaration he had made, in his Preface to the _Periarchon_, ought
to be restrained to those Errors only that related to the Trinity; and
that it was very uncharitable to judge of his Faith, from the Faith of
the Author he translated, and not from his own Words. He then declares
his Sentiments touching some particular Points, in which _Origen_ was
thought to differ from the Church; adding, that where _Origen_ differed
from the Catholic Church, he differed from _Origen_.
[Sidenote: Jerom _condemns_ Origen, _and inveighs against_ Ruffinus.]
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