Origen

Son of the martyr Leonides, Origen was teaching Alexandria's catechumens by eighteen and became antiquity's most prodigious biblical scholar. His Hexapla set the Old Testament in six parallel columns of Hebrew and Greek; his commentaries and homilies ranged across nearly the whole of Scripture, reading it at once literally and spiritually. On First Principles was Christianity's first systematic theology, and Against Celsus its most formidable early defense. Some of his speculations were later condemned, and controversy shadows his name, but tortured in the Decian persecution, he died of his sufferings — a confessor whose learning fed the church for centuries.

His Hexapla laid out the Old Testament in six parallel columns — a work so vast it was likely never copied in full.

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