Origen,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on Matthew…
(1885)
“ The Exchange for One’s Life.But the saying, “What shall a man give in exchange for his own life,” [1] if spoken by way of interrogation, will seem to be able to indicate that an exchange for his own life is given by the man who after his sins has given up his whole substance, that his property may feed the poor, as if he were going by that to obtain salvation; but, if spoken affirmatively, I think, to indicate that there is not anything in man by the giving of which in exchange for his own life which has been overcome by death, he will ransom it out of its hand. ”
