(Image: depiction of Origen from a manuscript of
In numeros homilia XXVII dated to c. 1160)
ORIGEN
OF ALEXANDRIA (c. 184-245 AD), also known as Origen
Adamantius, was
an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and
spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific
writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of
theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and biblical
hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. He was one of the most
influential figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and
asceticism. He has been described as "the greatest genius the
early church ever produced".
His prophecy for the latter times
and the 'great king' to come that will throw out an evil king:
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“That will be the time in which righteousness shall be cast out, and
innocence be hated; in which the wicked shall prey upon the good as
enemies; neither law, nor order, nor military discipline shall be
preserved; no one shall reverence hoary locks, nor recognise the duty of
piety, nor pity sex or infancy; all
things shall be confounded and mixed together against right, and against
the laws of nature, (i.e homosexuality and lesbianism). Thus the earth
shall be laid waste, as though by one common robbery.
When these things shall so happen, then the righteous and the followers
of truth shall separate themselves from the wicked, and flee into
solitudes. And when he hears of this, the impious king, inflamed with
anger, will come with a great army, and bringing up all his forces, will
surround all the mountain in which the righteous shall be situated,
that he may seize them.
But they, when they shall see themselves
to be shut in on all sides and besieged, will call upon God with a loud
voice, and implore the aid of heaven; and God shall hear them, and send
from heaven a great king to rescue and free them, and destroy all the
wicked with fire and sword.”
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