Origen, COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, Part II, Complete

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37. Of the Effects of the Death of Christ, of His Triumph After It, and of the Removal by His Death of the Sins of Men.

We have lingered over this subject of the martyrs and over the record of those who died on account of pestilence, because this lets us see the excellence of Him who was led as a sheep to the slaughter and was dumb as a lamb before the shearer. For if there is any point in these stories of the Greeks, and if what we have said of the martyrs is well founded,--the Apostles, too, were for the same reason the filth of the world and the offscouring of all things, [4969] --what and how great things must be said of the Lamb of God, who was sacrificed for this very reason, that He might take away the sin not of a few but of the whole world, for the sake of which also He suffered? If any one sin, we read, [4970] "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world," since He is the Saviour of all men, [4971] especially of them that believe, who [4972] blotted out the written bond that was against us by His own blood, and took it out of the way, so that not even a trace, not even of our blotted-out sins, might still be found, and nailed it to His cross; who having put off from Himself the principalities and powers, made a show of them openly, triumphing over them by His cross. And we are taught to rejoice when we suffer afflictions in the world, knowing the ground of our rejoicing to be this, that the world has been conquered and has manifestly been subjected to its conqueror. Hence all the nations, released from their former rulers, serve Him, because He [4973] saved the poor from his tyrant by His own passion, and the needy who had no helper.

[4969] 1 Cor. iv. 13.

[4970] 1 John ii. 1, 2.

[4971] 1 Tim. iv. 10.

[4972] Coloss. ii. 14, 15.

[4973] Ps. lxxii. 12.

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