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Panegyric on Origen

St Gregory the Wonderworker, ANF 6

Argument 1: For Eight Years Gregory Has Given Up the Practice of Oratory, Being Busied…
Argument 2: He Essays to Speak of the Well-Nigh Divine Endowments of Origen in His…
Argument 3: He is Stimulated to Speak of Him by the Longing of a Grateful Mind. To the…
Argument 4: The Son Alone Knows How to Praise the Father Worthily. In Christ and by…
Argument 5: Here Gregory Interweaves the Narrative of His Former Life. His Birth of…
Argument 6: The Arts by Which Origen Studies to Keep Gregory and His Brother Athenodorus…
Argument 7: The Wonderful Skill with Which Origen Prepares Gregory and Athenodorus for…
Argument 8: Then in Due Succession He Instructs Them in Physics, Geometry, and Astronomy
Argument 9: But He Imbues Their Minds, Above All, with Ethical Science; And He Does Not…
Argument 10: Hence the Mere Word-Sages are Confuted, Who Say and Yet Act Not
Argument 11: Origen is the First and the Only One that Exhorts Gregory to Add to His…
Argument 12: Gregory Disallows Any Attainment of the Virtues on His Part. Piety is Both…
Argument 13: The Method Which Origen Used in His Theological and Metaphysical…
Argument 14: Whence the Contentions of Philosophers Have Sprung. Against Those Who Catch…
Argument 15: The Case of Divine Matters. Only God and His Prophets are to Be Heard in…
Argument 16: Gregory Laments His Departure Under a Threefold Comparison; Likening It to…
17. Argument 17: Gregory Consoles Himself
18. Argument 18: Peroration, and Apology for the Oration
Argument 19: Apostrophe to Origen, and Therewith the Leave-Taking, and the Urgent…
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