Origen of Alexandria

In his own words on James

• James 1:2

  If you count it all joy when you fall into various temptations, you give birth to joy, and you offer that joy in sacrifice to God.

  SERMONS ON GENESIS 8.10

• James 1:8

  We who do not follow our Lord with complete and perfect faith but yet have withdrawn from foreign gods dwell in a no-man's land. We are cut down by the foreign gods as deserters, but because we are unstable and unreliable, we are not defended by our Lord.

  SERMONS ON EXODUS 8.4

• James 1:17

  The soul gradually ascends to the heavens after the resurrection. It does not reach the highest point immediately but goes through many stages during which it is progressively enlightened by the light of Wisdom, until it arrives at the Father of lights himself.

  HOMILY 27 ON NUMBERS 6

• James 2:17

  If someone dies in his sins he has not truly believed in Christ, even if he has made a profession of faith in him, and if faith is mentioned but it lacks works, such faith is dead, as we have read in the epistle which circulates as the work of James.

  COMMENTARY ON JOHN 19.152

• James 3:18

  You shall rejoice in the morning, that is, in the world to come, if you have gathered the fruits of righteousness by weeping and labor in this world.

  SERMONS ON GENESIS 10.3

• James 4:4

  Since evil forms a friendship with the world and virtue a friendship with God, virtue and evil cannot coexist.

  CATENA

• James 5:20

  A man who converts others will have his own sins forgiven.

  SERMONS ON LEVITICUS 2.4