[B-Greek] Origen in the Greek

Terry and Gail Cook cookie99 at fuse.net
Sun Apr 22 20:42:28 EDT 2007


Greetings Anthony,
You wrote, "Origen is famously quoted as having said that their Greek was 
deliberately bad so that the message was not shown up by their eloquence." 
Is this direct quote? Where did you come by this quote?
Terry Cook



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Rimell" <anthonyr at nzctu.org.nz>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 5:02 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Origen in the Greek


> Greetings all
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> A newbie to the list, I am currently undertaking my doctoral work on
> Origen and his commentary on John;
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> What I am finding hard, and wondering if those with good Greek
> connections (so to speak) can assist me with, is finding any works of
> Origen in Greek.  It may be that I live too far away from civilisation
> (I am in New Zealand), but searches at my local Theological College and
> on the web turn up no books I can purchase.  Can anyone assist?
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> By the way, on "continuous and undefined aspect (Mitch Larramore)" (Vol
> 52, issue 21)
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> One problem we all face of course is that some of the authors of the NT
> themselves struggled with their Greek.  Origen is famously quoted as
> having said that their Greek was deliberately bad so that the message
> was not shown up by their eloquence (!!), but it does mean that when we
> are looking to make sure we catch the flavour of points such as Mitch's
> very valid one, we need to recall that (eg esp 1 - 3 John) the Greek is
> at times so bad one wonders if the writer grasped this point (The "I
> write..." passages in 1 John come especially to mind).
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> Regards to all
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> Anthony Rimell
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> AUCKLAND
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