The texts that pull them aside; two men

Origen went on: We came down into the discussion; he gave a statement, as that man cleared himself toward us with statements of faith [lacuna] that it was as toward God.

Necessarily, then, beloved Dionysius inquires about this too. The texts by which they are pulled aside — lest any of them escape me — I will first set out, and to each, God granting, according to your prayer, we will answer.

What has pulled them aside is this: The soul of all flesh is blood. And this text has terribly stirred those who have not understood it. And You shall not eat the soul with the flesh; take strong care not to eat blood; you shall not eat the soul with the flesh. This is what has pulled them aside; for the other things that have pulled them aside are far less than the force of the sense in these.

I, for my part, praying to be helped in reading the divine things — for we need help so that we may not think something besides the truth — [lacuna]. I found that things not bodily are named with the same names as all the bodily things, so that the bodily things belong to the outer man, and the things with the same names as the bodily belong to the inner. Scripture says that the human being is two men: For if our outer man is being destroyed, yet our inner is being renewed day by day; and I delight in the law of God according to the inner man. These two men the apostle everywhere sets out, in each person.