Origen

It is regrettable that Dr Inge did not preface his Lecture with the following passage from Origen:'After we had come to believe that Christ was the Son of God, and had ceased to look for the truth among those who claimed that their erroneous doctrines were true, we were convinced that we had to learn that truth from Christ himself. For many think that their opinions are those of Christ and yet they differ from their predecessors. But since the teachings of the Church, transmitted in orderly succession from the Apostles and remaining in the Church to the present day, are still preserved, it is clear that that alone is to be accepted as the truth which in no way differs from Ecclesiastical and Apostolic tradition'.The Lecture itself is very briefsome twenty-three pages. I have read it four times and each time I have found myself wondering what the audience gathered from it. Personally I was deeply disappointed. For like St Jerome I have read all Origen's extant works (Ep. lxxxiv. 4), and, like the Hermit of Bethlehem, found them hard to understand

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