Summary of the Argument

Here is a summary of the argument: 1. I must bear the taunts of my opponent as Christ bore those of the Jews. 2. Even so, the charges of substance must be answered. 3. I praised him, but he has wounded me. 4. I am no heretic. I declare my faith, the faith of my baptism. 5. I give a further proof of my faith in the resurrection of the flesh. 6 to 9. The resurrection body is a spiritual body. 10. Origen’s teachings in On First Principles. 11. What led to the translation. 12 and 13. Pamphilus’s Apology for Origen. 14. The preface to the translation of On First Principles. 15. The treatise on the tampering with the works of Origen. 16. The difficulties of translation. 17. What Origen meant by the words “The Son does not see the Father.” 18. The difference between seeing and knowing. 19. Eusebius of Cremona put passages of his own into the translation. [a] 20. If Eusebius had been acting honestly, he should have shown me what he thought dangerous. 21. Jerome’s method of translating was the same as mine. 22. Jerome’s reference to his commentary on Ephesians. 23. Jerome has not really changed his mind about Origen. 24. Women turned into men, and bodies into souls. 25. Jerome explains the foundation of the world, in Greek katabole, as a casting down. [b] 26. Under the name of “another,” Jerome gives his own views. 27. Jerome teaches that souls fell into human bodies. 28. Predestination. 29. The “other” who gives these strange views is Jerome himself. 30. “Hopers” and “Fore-hopers.” [c] 31 and 30a. Jerome has admitted that these views are his own. 31a and 32. Further proof that Jerome’s views are the same as Origen’s. 33. The commentary on Ephesians, which Jerome himself chose, condemns him. 34 and 35. Principalities and powers. 36. Jerome’s complaint about new doctrines can be turned back on himself. 38 and 39. The origin of men, of angels, and of the heavenly bodies. 40 and 41. The body as a prison. 42. All creatures, the fallen angel included, share in the final restoration. 43. The arrogance of Jerome’s teaching. 44. If Origen is not to be pardoned, neither is Jerome.