1168Origin of men, angels, and heavenly bodies. 1170The body as a prison. 1171The body as a prison. 1172All creatures, including the fallen angel, partaking in the final restoration. 1174Arrogance of Jerome's teaching. 1176If Origen is not to be pardoned, neither is Jerome. 1177Book II 1177Epitome of Argument. 1179Jerome says that the defenders of Origen are united in a federation of perjury. 1180Jerome's commentaries on Ephesians follow Origen's interpretation of the texts about a secret federation to whom higher truths are to be told. 1181But I follow Christ in condemning all falsehood. 1182Jerome has not only allowed perjury but has practised it. 1183His treatise on Virginity (Ep. xxii to Eustochium) defames all orders of Christians. 1185In his anti-Ciceronian dream he promised never to read or possess heathen books. 1186Yet his works are filled with quotations from them. 1187In his “Best mode of Translation” he relies on the opinions of Cicero and Horace. 1189He confesses his obligations to Porphyry. 1190Counsel 1191Jerome at Bethlehem had heathen books copied and taught them to boys. 1192He condemns as heathenish unobjectionable views which he himself holds. 1193He spoke of Paula impiously as the mother-in-law of God. 1194Such impiety is unpardonable. 1195Jerome's boast of his teachers, Didymus and the Jew Baranina. 1197His extravagant praises of Origen. 1198Preface to Origen on Canticles. 1199Preface to Commentary on Micah. 1200Book of Hebrew Names. 1201A story of Origen. xxv