Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Origen/Introductory Note/Dogmatic Works

(4)&#160; Dogmatic Works.

These include the &#931;&#964;&#961;&#969;&#956;&#945;&#964;&#949;&#8150;&#962;, a work composed in imitation of the treatise of Clement of the same name, and consisting originally of ten books, of which only three fragments exist in a Latin version by Jerome; a treatise on the Resurrection, of which four fragments remain; and the treatise &#928;&#949;&#961;&#8054; &#8217;&#913;&#961;&#967;&#8182;&#957;, De Principiis, which contains Origen&#8217;s views on various questions of systematic theology.&#160; The work has come down to us in the Latin translation of his admirer Rufinus; but, from a comparison of the few fragments of the original Greek which have been preserved, we see that Rufinus was justly chargeable with altering many of Origen&#8217;s expressions, in order to bring his doctrine on certain points more into harmony with the orthodox views of the time.&#160; The De Principiis consists of four books, and is the first of the works of Origen in this series, to which we refer the reader.