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Quotation from On First Principles (De Principiis) by Origen
“God, therefore, is not to be thought of as being either a body or as existing in a body, but as an uncompounded intellectual nature, admitting within Himself no addition of any kind”
On First Principles (De Principiis), Book I, Chapter I. On God, trans. Frederick Crombie (1869)
Book I, chapter 1: Origen's teaching that God is pure, bodiless mind.
Citation: "God, therefore, is not to be thought of as being either a body or as existing in a body, but as an uncompounded intellectual nature, admitting within Himself no addition of any kind" — Origen, On First Principles (De Principiis), Book I, Chapter I. On God, trans. Frederick Crombie (1869). (id origen-de-principiis-q1)
