There were, doubtless, in the 5th century church historians and theologians who still spoke of him with reverence, but such men became fewer and fewer. In the West Vincent of Lerins held up Origen as a warning example (Commonit. 23), showing how even the most learned and most eminent of church teachers might be come a misleading light. In the East the exegetical school of Antioch had an aversion to Origen ; the Alexandrians had utterly repudiated him. Nevertheless his writings were much read, espe cially in Palestine. The monophysite monks appealed to his au thority, but could not prevent Justinian and the fifth oecumenical council at Constantinople (553) from anathematizing his teaching.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.-Next to the works of Origen (see Redepenning, "Des Hieronymus wiederaufgefundenes Verzeichnis der Schriften des Ori gens," in Zeit. f. d. hist. Theol. [1851], pp. 66 seq.) the most important sources are: Gregory Thaumat., Panegyricus in Orig.; Eusebius, H.E. vi. ; Epiphanius, Haer. 64 ; the works of Methodius, the Cappadocians, Jerome (see De vir. ill. 54, 61) and Rufinus; Vincent. Lerin. Commonit. 23 ; Palladius, Hist. Laus. 147 ; Justinian, Ep. ad Mennam (Mansi, ix. P. 487 seq.) ; Photius, Biblioth. 118, etc. The best of the older editions is that of Delarue 4 vols. fol. ; pub. by Migne in Patrol. Gr. vols. xi.—xvii.). A critical edition is being brought out by the Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften; it is not yet completed. Amongst the older works on Origen those of Huetius (printed in Delarue, vol. iv.) are the best ; but Tillemont, Fabricius, Walch
(Historie d. Ketzereien, vii. pp. 362-76o) and Schrockh also deserve to be mentioned. In recent times the doctrine of Origen has been expounded in the great works on church history by Baur, Dorner, Bohringer, Neander, Moller (Geschichte der Kosmologie in der griech ischen Kirche) and Kahnis (Die Lehre vom h. Geist, vol. i.) ; compare with these the works on the history of philosophy by Ritter, Erdmann, Ueberweg and Zeller. Of monographs, the best and most complete is Redepenning, Origenes, eine Darstellung seines Lebens and seiner Lehre (2 vols., 1841, 1846). Compare Thomasius, Orig. (1837) ; Kruger, "Ober das Verhaltnis des Orig. zu Ammonius Sakkas," in the Ztschr. f. hist. Theol. (1843), i. p. 46 seq.; Fischer, Comment. de Orig. theologia et cosmologia (1846) ; Ramers, Orig. Lehre von der Auferstehung des Fleisches (1851) ; Knittel, "Orig. Lehre von der Menschwerdung," in the Theol. Quartalschr. (1872) ; Schultz, "Christologie des Orig.," in the Jahrb. f. protest. Thepl. (1875) ; Mehlhorn, "Die Lehre von der menschlichen Freiheit nach Orig.," in Zeitschr. f. Kirchengesch. vol. ii. (1878) Freppel, Origene, vol. i., 2nd ed. (Paris, 1875). A full list of the later bibliography will be found in Bardenhewer's Geschichte der altkirchen litteratur (2nd ed. 2 vols., 1914) and de Faye Origene, vol. i.
(1923). (A. HA.)