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Quotation from On First Principles (De Principiis) by Origen
“in order that the simple man may be edified by the "flesh," as it were, of the Scripture, for so we name the obvious sense”
On First Principles (De Principiis), Book IV, Chapter I. On the Inspiration of Holy Scripture, and How the Same is to be Read and Underst, trans. Frederick Crombie (1869)
Book IV, from the Greek: the threefold sense of Scripture, literal, moral and spiritual.
Citation: "in order that the simple man may be edified by the "flesh," as it were, of the Scripture, for so we name the obvious sense" — Origen, On First Principles (De Principiis), Book IV, Chapter I. On the Inspiration of Holy Scripture, and How the Same is to be Read and Underst, trans. Frederick Crombie (1869). (id origen-de-principiis-q2)
