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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

201–300

The Third Century

1 work

c. 240–244; survives in Latin

Greek, surviving in Latin

Homilies on Numbers

Origen of Alexandria · c. 185 – c. 253

Twenty-eight sermons on the wilderness, above all on the list of forty-two stopping places in chapter thirty-three, each read as a stage the soul passes through on its way out of Egypt.

Alexandrian · HomiliesNumbersExodusHebrewsRead elsewhere