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ABOUT this time Origen prepared his Commentaries on Isaiah and
on Ezekiel.
Of the former there have come down to us thirty books, as far as the
third part of Isaiah, to the vision of the beasts in the desert; on
Ezekiel twenty-five books, which are all that he wrote on the whole
prophet. Being at that time in Athens, he finished his work on
Ezekiel and commenced his Commentaries on the Song of Songs, which
he carried forward to the fifth book. After his return to Caesarea,
he completed these also, ten books in number. But why should we give
in this history an accurate catalogue of the man's works, which would
require a separate treatise? we have furnished this also in our
narrative of the life of Pamphilus, a holy martyr of our own time.
After showing how great the diligence of Pamphilus was in divine
things, we give in that a catalogue of the library which he collected
of the works of Origen and of other ecclesiastical writers, Whoever
desires may learn readily from this which of Origen's works have
reached us. But we must proceed now with our history.
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