Dialogue with Heraclides

Origen of Alexandria · c. 245 · Scherer (Toura papyrus) via DCO Greek

No earlier complete English of the Dialogue with Heraclides is in the public domain. The Toura text was recovered in the 1940s. This English is new, from the locked Greek.

Bishops’ examination of Heraclides on Father, Son, and the soul — English from the Toura Greek. Lacunae are marked, not filled.

English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Greek on each section for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.

1. 1 Heraclides confesses; the Son was God before the body
2. 2 Two Gods, and one power
3. 3 How two are one: flesh, spirit, God
4. 4 I and the Father are one; offering to God through God
5. 5 Covenants; a dead body, not a spiritual one
6. 6 Christ dies no more; Maximus; spirit, soul, body
7. 7 The whole man taken up; deposit of the spirit
8. 8 Do not touch me; faith and life together
9. 9 Pure heart and clean hands; lesser sins too
10. 10 Drunkard and reviler; is the soul blood?
11. 11 The texts that pull them aside; two men
12. 12 Not a human-shaped God; pearls and dogs
13. 13 Swine, pearls, be transformed
14. 14 From dogs, swine, serpents; fruits of repentance
15. 15 Agony of speaking; inside and outside; the first man
16. 16 Image without dust; eyes of the inner man
17. 17 Eyes of the mind; ears in our power
18. 18 The deaf asp; fragrance of Christ
19. 19 Stench, taste, and the woman's touch
20. 20 Hands, feet, the wise man's head
21. 21 Belly, bones, and the saw
22. 22 Lost heart, numbered hairs, inner blood
23. 23 Better to depart and be with Christ
24. 24 Ready for death; Demetrius on immortality
25. 25 Three deaths; immortal and not immortal
26. 26 They will seek death; Balaam; perhaps not always mortal
27. 27 He who alone has immortality; life set before us
28. 28 From the shadow into the life