The quarrel over Origen between two old friends: Rufinus's prefaces and his Apology to Anastasius and Apronianus, Jerome's three books against Rufinus, and Rufinus's Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, the earliest full explanation of the creed. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus, Book 1
1Preface to Book 12An Old Friend Attacks Me in Secret3Others Translated Origen, So Why Single Me Out4False Praise, Then Three Books Against Me5What Faith Does He Mean6I Can Meet Any Attack7Why I Translated On First Principles8My Translation Showed the Book as It Is9Pamphilus’s Apology Stirred All Rome10The Work Was Really Eusebius’s11Give Up This Pretended Defense12I Praised Eusebius and Origen Only as Writers13A Friendly Letter My Friends Held Back14Learning Hebrew from a Jew15Why I Praised Origen Before I Knew On First Principles16Charges I Know Only by Report17What a Commentator Does18Good Writing Takes Learning19Origen Allowed the Use of Falsehood20“Kiss the Son” in the Second Psalm21The Tangled Forest of Hebrew Words22How I Used Origen and Others on Ephesians23Chosen Before the Foundation of the World24Far Above All Rule and Authority25The Diligent Reader26Paul the Prisoner of Jesus Christ27The Whole Body Joined and Knit Together28Two Heresies Set Side by Side29Loving Their Wives as Their Own Bodies30Loving Their Wives as Their Own Bodies, Continued31The Charge of Reading Secular Books32A Promise Made in a Dream33All Sins Are Put Away in Baptism