Living like Paul; Timothy and Apollos; watch, stand, act in love
[Origen:] Paul in the first letter to the Thessalonians calls all like himself living; for the God of the living is also God of Paul and of those like him.
89 on 1 Corinthians 16:10–12: if Timothy comes, see that he be with you without fear, for he works the Lord’s work as I also do; let no one despise him; send him on in peace; about Apollos I urged him much to come, and it was not at all will that he come now; he will come when he has opportunity. [Origen:] At the letter’s start he said, I hear there are divisions among you; each of you says, ‘I am of Paul,’ ‘I am of Apollos’—this Apollos about whom he speaks while such faction and turmoil is in the Corinthians’ church. This admirable Apollos, being overseer of those at that time, fled as to a judge to the apostle. Paul was doing the work of the apostleship; it was not fitting for him, spending time then in Asia, to leave the things in Asia and come to Corinth; but instead of himself he chose Timothy and sent him to set right the things in Corinth, and necessarily sending him with the letter entrusted him to the church.
For when the saints visited benefiting the hearers, they did not arrive in weakness or in fear or in trembling; but when they came to the weaker, they visited in weakness and in fear and in trembling. Such were the Corinthians, so that not the great Paul visited them but the weak one, inasmuch as he said, I became to the weak as weak, that I might win the weakAnd for this reason he said, I also was with you in weakness; for this reason he also came in fear and much trembling, so that he might prevail with the hearers. Since then arriving in fear and trembling for the one about to benefit concerns the hearers, he now asks the Corinthians that Timothy be with them without fear; for he works the Lord’s work as I also do; what I would have done if I had visited you, Timothy does for you. So let no one despise him; for if you despise this one, you despise me also; for he works the Lord’s work as I also do. And send him on in peace, that he may come to me; now he comes to you to make peace. For he finds your faction in the church; but having agreed and been set right by what he says and taken up peace, send him on in your concord and peace, that he may come to me. For I await him with the brothers—which brothers? those of whom he said earlier, Whomever you approve by letters, these I will sendSo I await hearing him return, announcing to me your affairs.
About brother Apollos I urged him to come to you; and it was not at all will that he come now. He was a human, as is likely, holy, a friend of peace, and seeing faction and turmoil in the church under him, he did not claim this but yielded. Then the apostle asks him, having been patient, to return to his sojourning. And this one did not see Corinth at all, not disobeying the apostle; for he would not thus have recommended his seeming, if not subject; for he says, “It was not at all will that he come now”—that is, not without God’s will did he do the not coming to you; but he will come when he has opportunity. And when does he have opportunity? If you are at peace, if you do not despise Timothy.
90 on 1 Corinthians 16:13–14: “Watch, stand in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all your things be done in love.” [Origen:] For there is a sleep of soul and a watching; therefore the word, turning the soul from sleeping, says through Solomon, Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids, that you may be saved like a doe from snares and like a bird from a snareAnd the Savior says, Watch at every time and pray that you may be able to escape the trials that are about to come“Stand”: do not be shaken but become firm. The double-souled has not stood in the faith, or the one doubting about the things according to the faith. “Act like men”: he speaks as to soldiers; for put on the panoply of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil“Be strong”: that is, take up the strength, that having been strengthened you may be able to say, I can do all things in Christ Jesus who strengthens me“Let all your things be done in love”: for beginners, doing in fear; for the perfect, doing in love.
Greek
[Ὠριγένους] Πάντας τοὺς ὁμοίους ἑαυτῷ ὁ Παῦλος ἐν τῇ πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς ˉα ζῶντα καλεῖ· ὁ γὰρ τῶν ζώντων θεὸ καὶ Παύλου καὶ τῶν ὁμοίων αὐτοῦ θεός ἐστιν. 89 xvi 10–12 [Ἐὰν δὲ ἔλθῃ Τιμόθεος, βλέπετε ἵνα ἀφόβως γένηται πρὸς ὑμᾶς, τὸ γὰρ ἔργον κυρίου ἐργάζεται ὡς καὶ ἐγώ· μή τις οὖν αὐτὸν ἐξουθενήσῃ. προπέμψατε δὲ αὐτὸν ἐν εἰρήνῃ, ἵνα ἔλθῃ πρός με, ἐκδέχομαι γὰρ αὐτὸν μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν. Περὶ δὲ Ἀπολλὼ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ, πολλὰ παρεκάλεσα αὐτὸν ἵνα ἔλθῃ πρὸς ὑμᾶς μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν· καὶ πάντως οὐκ ἦν θέλημα ἵνα νῦν ἔλθῃ· ἐλεύσεται δὲ ὅταν εὐκαιρήσῃ.] [Ὠριγένους] Κατὰ τὰς ἀρχὰς τῆς ἐπιστολῆς ἔφασκεν Ἀκούω σχίσματα ἐν ὑμῖν ὑπάρχειν· ἕκα το γὰρ ὑμῶν, φησί, λέγει Ἐγὼ μέν εἰμι Παύλου, ἐγὼ δὲ Ἀπολλώ– τούτου περὶ οὗ φησι τοιαύτης στάσεως καὶ ταραχῆς οὔσης ἐν τῇ Κορινθίων ἐκκλησίᾳ. ὁ θαυμάσιος οὗτος Ἀπολλὼς ἐπίσκοπος ὢν τῶν κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν ἐκεῖνον ὡς ἐπὶ κριτὴν κατέφυγεν τὸν ἀπόστολον. Παῦλος τὰ τῆς ἀποστολῆς ἐποίει· οὐκ ἦν αὐτῷ τὰ πράγματα ἐπιβάλλοντα διατρίβοντι ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ τότε καταλιπεῖν τὰ ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ καὶ γενέσθαι εἰς τὴν Κόρινθον· ἀλλ' ἀνθ' ἑαυτοῦ ἐξελέξατο Τιμόθεον καὶ ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν διορθωσόμενον τὰ ἐν Κορίνθῳ καὶ ἀναγκαίως μετὰ τῆς ἐπιστολῆς πέμπων αὐτὸν παρακατατιθέναι τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ. ὅτε γὰρ ἐπεδήμουν οἱ ἅγιοι ὠφελοῦντες τοὺς ἀκούοντας, οὐκ ἐν ἀ θενείᾳ παρεγίνοντο οὐδὲ ἐν φόβῳ οὐδὲ ἐν τρόμῳ· ὅτε δὲ παρεγίνοντο πρὸς τοὺς ἀσθενεστέρους, ἐν ἀ θενείᾳ καὶ ἐν φόβῳ καὶ ἐν τρόμῳ ἐπεδήμουν· τοιοῦτοι ἦσαν Κορίνθιοι, ὥστε οὐ Παῦλον τὸν μέγαν ἐπιδημεῖν αὐτοῖς ἀλλὰ τὸν ἀσθενῆ, καθὸ ἔλεγεν Ἐγενόμην τοῖ ἀ θενέ ιν ὡς ἀ θενή , ἵνα τοὺ ἀ θενεῖ κερδή ω. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἔλεγεν Κἀγὼ ἐν ἀ θενείᾳ ἐγενόμην πρὸ ὑμᾶ · διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἐν φόβῳ καὶ ἐν τρόμῳ πολλῷ ἐγένετο, ὅπως τῶν ἀκουόντων περιγένηται. ἐπειδὴ οὖν τὸ ἐν φόβῳ καὶ ἐν τρόμῳ ἐπιδημεῖν τὸν μέλλοντα ὠφελεῖν περὶ τοὺς ἀκροατάς ἐστιν, παρακαλεῖ νῦν τοὺς Κορινθίους ἵνα ἀφόβως γένηται Τιμόθεος πρὸς αὐτούς· τὸ γὰρ ἔργον κυρίου ἐργάζεται ὡς καὶ ἐγώ· ὅπερ ἐγὼ ἐπεποιήκειν ἂν ἐπιδημήσας ὑμῖν, τοῦτο ποιεῖ ὑμῖν ὁ Τιμόθεος. μή τις οὖν αὐτὸν ἐξουθενήσῃ· εἰ γὰρ τοῦτον ἐξουθενεῖτε, κἀμέ· τὸ γὰρ ἔργον κυρίου ἐργάζεται ὡς καὶ ἐγώ. προπέμψατε δὲ αὐτὸν ἐν εἰρήνῃ, ἵνα ἔλθῃ πρός με· νῦν μὲν ἔρχεται πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰρήνην ποιήσων. στάσιν γὰρ ὑμῶν εὑρίσκει ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ· ἀλλ' ὁμονοήσαντες καὶ διορθωθέντες ἐκ τῶν λεγομένων ὑπ' αὐτοῦ <καὶ> εἰρήνην ἀναλαβόντες, προπέμψατε αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ὁμονοίᾳ καὶ εἰρήνῃ, ἵνα ἔλθῃ πρὸς ἐμέ. ἐκδέχομαι γὰρ αὐτὸν μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν· ποίων ἀδελφῶν; περὶ ὧν προεῖπεν ὅτι Οὓ ἐὰν δοκιμά ητε δι' ἐπιτολῆ , τούτου πέμψω. ἐκδέχομαι οὖν ἀκούων αὐτὸν ἐπανελευσόμενον, ἀπαγγέλλοντά μοι τὰ καθ' ὑμᾶς. Περὶ δὲ Ἀπολλὼ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ παρεκάλεσα αὐτόν, ἵνα ἔλθῃ πρὸς ὑμᾶς· καὶ πάντως οὐκ ἦν θέλημα ἵνα ἔλθῃ νῦν. ἄνθρωπος ἦν, ὡς εἰκός, ἅγιος, εἰρήνης φίλος, καὶ βλέπων στάσιν καὶ ταραχὴν ἐν τῇ ὑπ' αὐτὸν ἐκκλησίᾳ, οὐκ ἐπεδικάζετο τοῦτό που ἀλλὰ παρεχώρησεν. εἶτα παρακαλεῖ αὐτὸν ὁ ἀπόστολος μακροθυμήσαντα ἐπανελθεῖν εἰς τὴν παροικίαν αὐτοῦ. οὗτος δὲ οὐδὲ ὅλως ἑώρακεν τὴν Κόρινθον, οὐκ ἀπιθήσας τῷ ἀποστόλῳ· οὐ γὰρ ἂν οὕτως συνέστησεν αὐτοῦ τὸ δοκοῦν, οὐχ ὑποτεταγμένον· λέγει γὰρ Πάντως οὐκ ἦν θέλημα ἵνα νῦν ἔλθῃ· οἷον· οὐκ ἄνευ θελήματος θεοῦ πεποίηκεν τὸ μὴ ἐλθεῖν αὐτὸν πρὸς ὑμᾶς· ἐλεύσεται δὲ ὅταν εὐκαιρήσῃ. πότε δὲ εὐκαιρεῖ; ἐὰν ὑμεῖς εἰρηνεύητε, ἐὰν Τιμόθεον μὴ ἐξουθενήσητε. 90 xvi 13–14 [Γρηγορεῖτε, στήκετε ἐν τῇ πίστει, ἀνδρίζεσθε, κραταιοῦσθε. πάντα ὑμῶν ἐν ἀγάπῃ γινέσθω.] [Ὠριγένους] Ἔστι γάρ τις ὕπνος ψυχῆς καὶ γρηγόρησις· διὸ καὶ ἀποτρέπων τοῦ καθεύδειν τὴν ψυχὴν διὰ Σολομῶντος ὁ λόγος φησὶ Μὴ δῷ ὕπνον τοῖς ὄμμα ι, μηδὲ νυσταγμὸν οῖ βλεφάροι , ἵνα ώζῃ ὥ περ δορκὰ ἐκ βρόχων καὶ ὥ περ ὄρνεον ἐκ παγίδο . καὶ ὁ Σωτὴρ φησὶ Γρηγορεῖτε ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ καὶ προ εύχε θε ἵνα δυνηθῆτε ἐκφυγεῖν τοὺς μέλλοντας γίνεσθαι πειρασμούς. Στήκετε· μὴ σαλεύεσθε ἀλλὰ βέβαιοι γίνεσθε. ὁ δίψυχος οὐχ ἕστηκεν ἐν τῇ πίστει ἢ ὁ ἀμφιβάλλων περὶ τῶν κατὰ τὴν πίστιν πραγμάτων. Ἀνδρίζεσθε· ὡς στρατιώταις λέγει· ἐνδύ α θε γάρ φησι τὴν πανοπλίαν τοῦ θεοῦ πρὸ τὸ δύνα θαι ὑμᾶ τῆναι πρὸ τὰ μεθοδεία τοῦ διαβόλου. Κραταιοῦσθε· οἷον· Ἀναλάβετε τὴν ἰσχύν, ἵνα δυνηθῆτε κραταιωθέντες εἰπεῖν Πάντα ἰ χύω ἐν τῷ ἐνδυναμοῦντί με Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ. Πάντα ὑμῶν ἐν ἀγάπῃ γινέσθω· Εἰσαγομένων τὸ ἐν φόβῳ ποιεῖν, τελείων δὲ τὸ ἐν ἀγάπῃ.
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Origen of Alexandria, Fragmenta ex commentariis in epistulam i ad Corinthios (Greek).
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