Pantainos, Heraclas, and examining heresy and philosophy
While I was devoted to the Word and our discipline was spreading, heretics approached at times, and at other times students of Greek learning — above all of philosophy. So it seemed right to test the heretics teachings and what the philosophers claim about the truth. In this we followed Pantainos, who before us had helped many and was well prepared in those things, and Heraclas, now seated among the Alexandrian elders, whom I found already five years with the philosophical teacher before I myself began those lectures. For his sake he had laid aside ordinary dress, taken the philosophers cloak, and still wears it; and as he is able he never stops reading Greek books.
Greek
Scholia in Apocalypsem (scholia 1, 3-39) ̓Επεὶ δὲ ἀνακειμένῳ μοι τῷ λόγῳ, τῆς φήμης διατρεχούσης περὶ τῆς ἕξεως ἡμῶν, προσῄεσαν ὁτὲ μὲν αἱρετικοί, ὁτὲ δὲ οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν μαθημάτων καὶ μάλιστα τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ, ἔδοξεν ἐξετάσαι τά τε τῶν αἱρετικῶν δόγματα καὶ τὰ ὑπὸ τῶν φιλοσόφων περὶ ἀληθείας λέγειν ἐπαγγελλόμενα. Τοῦτο δὲ πεποιήκαμεν μιμησάμενοί τε τὸν πρὸ ἡμῶν πολλοὺς ὠφελήσαντα Πάνταινον, οὐκ ὀλίγην ἐν ἐκείνοις ἐσχηκότα παρασκευήν, καὶ τὸν νῦν ἐν τῷ πρεσβυτερίῳ καθεζόμενον Ἀλεξανδρέων Ἡρακλᾶν, ὅντινα εὗρον παρὰ τῷ διδασκάλῳ τῶν φιλοσόφων μαθημάτων, ἤδη πέντε ἔτεσιν αὐτῷ προσκαρτερήσαντα πρὶν ἢ ἐμὲ ἄρξασθαι ἀκούειν ἐκείνων τῶν λόγων· δι' ὃν καὶ πρότερον κοινῇ ἐσθῆτι χρώμενος ἀποδυσάμενος καὶ φιλόσοφον ἀναλαβὼν σχῆμα μέχρι τοῦ δεῦρο τηρεῖ βιβλία τε Ἑλλήνων κατὰ δύναμιν οὐ παύεται φιλολογῶν.
About this text
Origen of Alexandria, Scholia in Apocalypsem (Greek).
Original English Translation of Origen’s Scholia in Apocalypsem — new OET from PG 17 Greek.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 17 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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