Origen of Alexandria
Church father · died c. 254
The most learned teacher of the early Greek church. He headed the school for converts at Alexandria, and later taught at Caesarea in Palestine, where he died of the tortures he suffered in the persecution under Decius. He set the Old Testament in six parallel columns, the Hexapla, and wrote commentaries on most of Scripture, quoting the New Testament constantly.
Quoted For
- Matthew 17:21 “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting”
The church fathers are the early Christian writers. Their quotations show which reading was known, where, and when, often earlier than any manuscript of the passage that survives.
