Scripture Meditation: Origen and the Spiritual Sense of Scripture
Teaching on Scripture Meditation from Origen: Origen and the Spiritual Sense of Scripture
This is a spiritual discipline on multiple senses and allegory, drawing on 2 Corinthians 3:6, John 5:39 and 1 Corinthians 10:11.
Origen of Alexandria (d. 254) taught that Scripture has multiple layers of meaning: the literal or historical sense, the moral sense (what it teaches about how to live), and the spiritual or allegorical sense (what it reveals about Christ and the soul's journey to God). He wrote: "The Scriptures were composed through the Spirit of God, and have both a meaning which is obvious and another which is hidden from most readers."…
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