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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on Matthew… (1885)

And he who is truly a householder is both free and rich; rich because from the office of the scribe he has been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven, in every word of the Old Testament, and in all knowledge concerning the new teaching of Christ Jesus, and has this riches laid up in his own treasure-house—in heaven, in which he stores his treasure as one who has been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven,—where neither moth doth consume, nor thieves break through.
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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on Matthew… (1885)

For pain is a worm and a moth, which wounds the heart which has not its treasures in heaven and spiritual things, for if a man has his treasure in these—“for where the treasure is, there will the heart be also,” [19] —he has his heart in heaven, and on account of it he says, “Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear.”
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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on Matthew… (1885)

And it might be answered to these inquiries that, as a matter of fact, not all the disciples but only Peter and John are described in the Acts as unlearned and ignorant, but that there were more disciples in regard to whom, because they understood all things, it is said, “Every scribe,” etc. Or it might be said that every one who has been instructed in the teaching according to the letter of the law is called a scribe, so that those who were unlearned and ignorant and led captive by the letter of the law are spoken of as scribes in a particular sense.
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