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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Origen… (1885)

From these remarks it is evident, that when Jesus said “coarsely,” as Celsus terms it, “To him who shall strike thee on the one cheek, turn the other also; and if any man be minded to sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also,” [1] He expressed Himself in such a way as to make the precept have more practical effect than the words of Plato in the Crito
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