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

For when the prophet says, “Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law,” [3] or, “the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes,” [4] or, “Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,” [5] no one is so foolish as to suppose that the eyes of the body behold the wonders of the divine law, or that the law of the Lord gives light to the bodily eyes, or that the sleep of death falls on the eyes of the body. When our Saviour says, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear,” [6] any one will understand that the ears spoken of are of a diviner kind.
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