Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/Origen on John/Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John/Book I/Chapter 21

21.&#160; (6) of Design and Execution.

Again we speak of the arche of an action, in which there is a design which appears after the beginning.&#160; It may be considered whether wisdom is to be regarded as the arche of the works of God because it is in this way the principle of them.