of orthodoxy; you have the proofs of these also, in the sixth A book of the apology written by us regarding the man. Socrates, in *Hist.* book IV, ch. 27, and Nicephorus, in book XI, ch. 19, also testify that the panegyrical oration of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, which he composed in his praise when departing from Origen, is attached to these books. Rufinus, as we have already said in book I *Against Jerome*, says that in this *Apology*, the subject of fate or mathematics is treated. An anonymous author edited by the Rev. Father Lupus reports that Pamphilus the martyr and Eusebius relied on the testimonies of many preceding Fathers for pre-existence and restitution. Finally, another anonymous author, edited by Sirmond under the name of *Praedestinatus*—whom some deem to be Arnobius the Younger, others Primasius—in book I *On Heresies*, heresy XXII, which is that of the Apellitanians, says thus: "Origenes so perfectly overcame them that he became their *periodeutes* (circuit-rider) and preached by going through each individual city throughout the East. And because his books are innumerable, the heretics, once overcome, altered his books to their own whims with most cunning argumentation, so that they might deceive whom they wished, claiming that Origen had defined matters thus in his Expositions. Whence, whoever reads Origen even to this day, if he knows how to distinguish him with prudent reading, discovers places tainted by heretics. That this is so, the holy martyr Pamphilus declared in his *Apology*." And in heresy XLIII, after he said that there were three Origens—one a most wicked Syrian, who taught filthy things; another who denied the resurrection of the dead, and said that Christ was a creature, and affirmed that paradise and the heavens were spoken of allegorically—he adds this: "These two Origens wrote all manner of wicked things. Heretics and perverse teachers mingled them with our catholic teacher Origen, so that what is said by the Lord in the Gospels might be fulfilled: 'Didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares?' And he answering saith: 'An enemy man hath done this.' For this reason, reading Origen, we find him a catholic, and one fighting against and conquering heresies: reading Origen again, we find him a heretic, and opposing and building up things contrary to the faith. The letters convey the words and the meaning: if the faces of those speaking could also be shown, no one could fall into error regarding the person of the doctor. For one must also be on guard against that [occurrence], that a certain Bithynian heresiarch named Ampullianus, who was teaching after Origen in the Church of God—he fell into such a heresy that he said that all the criminal [souls] with the devil and the demons are boiled in Gehenna until they can emerge pure and immaculate, and, for this reason, be restored again to the Creator, having previously been alienated from guilt. This man, when he was being rebuked by the Church, began to produce the books of Origen, which he himself had corrupted, and to say: 'Behold because Origen thought thus,' and especially in the four books *On First Principles*. But he who is of a healthy mind, and has the bright eyes of the intellect, B thus sees those evil things added to the booklets of Origen, and recognizes them, just as one recognizes white patches, or ones of any other color, sewn onto a scarlet rug. That this is so is taught by the holy martyr Pamphilus, who, before he reached the crown of martyrdom, irreproachably held the bishop's chair, and ministered the sound doctrine of God to the people. He published an *Apology*, and excluded everything which Catholics, being ignorant, falsely attribute to Origen, showing that those things which are found to be reprehensible in his booklets are not Origen's, but those of others whom he had overcome: while other things, which are entirely perverse, are those of the two other heretics, who had the name of Origen, but neither his faith nor his conscience." I know not whence this anonymous author drew this, but he seems to have drawn it from impure C fountains; and I fear that he who so ineptly endows the martyr Pamphilus with episcopal dignity, also considers more ineptly either the *Apology* consisting of five books of that anonymous author of whom Photius speaks in *Bibliotheca* cod. CXVII, or Rufinus's book *On the Adulteration of the Books of Origen*, to be the true *Apology* of Pamphilus. For each one says that the books of Origen were indeed corrupted by heretics; but Pamphilus [is said to do so] nowhere; unless perhaps he said so in the other books consumed by the injury of time: concerning which, however, neither Eusebius, nor Jerome, nor Socrates, nor Photius, nor anyone else has the slightest word.
IN THE APOLOGY OF S. PAMPHILUS FOR ORIGEN. RUFINI PREFACE TO MACARIUS
Moved by the love of knowing the truth, O man of desires, Macarius, you lay upon me a task which, being known to you...