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

For as the Son of man is Lord of the sabbath, [7] and not the slave of the sabbath as the people are, so He who gives the law has power to give it “until a time of reformation,” [8] and to change the law, and, when the time of the reformation is at hand, also to give after the former way and after the former heart another way and another heart, “in an acceptable time, and in a day of salvation.”
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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on Matthew… (1885)

But consider if it can be said to this, that, if she shall be saved by her former husband returning and taking her to himself as wife, she will in any case be saved after she has been polluted. A priest, then, will not take to himself as a wife one who has been a harlot and an outcast, [4] but no other, as being inferior to the priest, is hindered from doing so.
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