Origen,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on John…
(1885)
“ How Scripture Warns Us Against Making Many Books.For, to judge by the words of the phrase, “My son, beware of making many books,” two things appear to be indicated by it: first, that we ought not to possess many books, and then that we ought not to compose many books. If the first is not the meaning the second must be, and if the second is the meaning the first does not necessarily follow. In either case we appear to be told that we ought not to make many books. ”
