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Commentary on the Gospel According to John, Books 1-10
Origen: Commentary on John
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Day 17: ANF09 II.7-9 or FC80 II.91-111
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Feb 08, 2022 06:21PM
without him nothing was made that has been made.
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Like many other Church Fathers, Origen had to grapple with the problem of evil.He speaks of the Nothing-ness of evil when giving an exposition of John 1:3 (which is again new to me).
This is, I think, the first mention of Heracleon. I looked him up: "Heracleon (fl. c. 145–180). Gnostic teacher and disciple of Valentinus. His commentary on John, which was perhaps the first commentary to exist on this or any Gospel, was so popular that Ambrose commissioned Origen to write his own commentary in response, providing a more orthodox approach to the Fourth Gospel."
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Introduction and Biographic Information (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005), 494.
Ambrose (of Alexandria, not of Milan) is the person to whom Origen's commentary on John is addressed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose...
Clark wrote: "This is, I think, the first mention of Heracleon. I looked him up: "Heracleon (fl. c. 145–180). Gnostic teacher and disciple of Valentinus. His commentary on John, which was perhaps the first com..."
Origen engages Heracleon throughout his commentary. Although the views of many others are also discussed, Heracleon is the only one addressed by name. I was wondering what made him so special, and that explains it.
