“Though such a great light had arisen, and though the Logos had been made manifest, declaring, "Here is a man whose name is Orient," they did not see the light, because "their wickedness blinded them, and they did not know the mysteries of God." Something paradoxical took place with that people and with the pagan natio…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 16:3
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22As for the mysteries of God, they kn ew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.
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20Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.
21Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.
— Wisdom of Solomon 2:22 —
23For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.
24Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.