Preface — why Romans is hardest
Romans is reckoned harder than Paul’s other letters for two reasons: tangled phrasing, and many questions — especially those heretics twist to deny free purpose and blame diversity of nature. We ask the God who teaches man knowledge and gives a word of wisdom by the Spirit before we open the letter.
Latin
Quod ceteris apostoli Pauli Epistolis difficilior putatur ad intelligendum haec quae ad Romanos scripta est, duabus mihi videtur fieri ex causis. Una, quod elocutionibus interdum confusis et minus explicitis utitur; alia, quod quaestiones in ea plurimas movet, et eas praecipue quibus innitentes haeretici astruere solent quod uniuscujusque gestorum causa non ad propositum debeat, sed ad naturae diversitatem referri. Deprecantes Deum qui docet hominem scientiam, explanationis Epistolae Pauli ad Romanos contingemus exordium.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on Romans, Book I (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–6.
English follows PG 14 (Migne) — Rufinus Latin. Scheck FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Book I §§1–6 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 14 (Migne) — Rufinus Latin (Latin · Book I §§1–6)
English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.