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“One God/Creator on the throne plus two created seraphim angels = a Trinity in Isaiah chapter six,” See Origen Spirit & Fire Catholic University of America Press Washington, D. C. reprinted 2001, pages 317 to 319. Genesis chapter 18:1-2 the three Angels that are about to destroy Sodom are Allegorized into being the Trinity by Origen. However, the Scriptures inform us that God came first to Abraham then the three Angels came in human form and the three Angels first left Abraham but the one Lord God stayed with Abraham and talked to him about Sodom and the others cities that he was going to destroy. “And the men [three Angels] turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.”-Genesis 18:22. Origen even sees the Trinity in wells. See Origen Spirit & Fire page 29. Origen: “After this then, Isaac dug a third well and called the name of that place: “Broad Places”...For truly Isaac has been extended and his name is increased over all the earth” Gen. 26:22. ...since he has filled us with knowledge of the Trinity.” Talk about your deep dry well and Allegorical demonic pluralistic gibberish! Most of these doctrines derived from one work of Origen’s, entitled On First Principles. This book, many thought, represented the real Origen: the Origen of the biblical commentaries was a pious deceiver. “For we are not as many, which corrupt the Word of God:..”-2 Cor. 2:17.
But one sentence from the Homilies on Genesis exemplifies his approach. Gen 18:8 reads, "[Abraham] stood . . . under the tree." Origen comments, "What does it help me who have come to hear what the Holy Spirit teaches the human race, if I hear that ‘Abraham was standing under a tree?’ In other words, the Scripture must have some deeper symbolic mystical spiritualistic Allegorical meaning! No detail is insignificant. Numbers delighted Origen. Two suggests matter, three suggests the Trinity, four suggests the Gospel, five suggests the senses, and six suggests creation. Etymologies - some of them correct, others wrong or even fatalistic - also delighted Origen. In a tour de force, he interprets the Hebrew names of the Israelites' forty-two stopping places in the desert as the stages of spiritual growth. Material things also light up with inner significance: water suggests baptism, wood suggests the cross, and manna suggests the Eucharist. How can any rational person follow this type of irrational thinking? The mirages, hallucinations, new non-Biblical Revelations or “strong delusions” seem to never cease from those who refuse to take the Bible for what it literally says. Deut. 4:2, Prov. 30:5-6, Gal. 1:8-9 and Rev. 22:18-19 all make it clear what will happen to those who dare to tamper with the Word of God! “Professing themselves to be wise, they become fools,”-Romans 1:22.
History of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Volume 2, 1910 page 521: “The exposition of the Bible was at first purely practical, and designed for direct edification. The controversy with the Gnostics called for a more scientific [Pagan Allegorical] method. Both the Orthodox and heretics, after the fashion of the rabbinical and Alexandrian Judaism, [which was really Jewish Gnosticism or the Kabbalah] made large use of allegorical and mystical interpretation, and not rarely lost themselves amid merest fancies and wildest vagaries. The [Catholic] fathers generally, with few exceptions, (Chrysostom and Jerome) had scarcely an idea of grammatical and historical exegesis.
Origen was the first to lay down, in connection with the allegorical method of the Jewish Platonist, Philo, a formal theory of interpretation, which he carried out in a long
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