De Principiis: Book I 9Fragment from the First Book of the de Principiis.

Origen · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume IV: The Fathers of the Third Century by Philip Schaff

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"It is an evidence of great negligence and sloth, that each one should fall down to such (a pitch of degradation), and be so emptied, as that, in coming to evil, he may be fastened to the gross body of irrational beasts of burden."