@misc{origen_letter_nodate,
	title = {A {Letter} from {Origen} to {Gregory}},
	url = {http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf04.vi.viii.i.html},
	abstract = {In this letter to Gregory Thaumaturgus, we read Origen's famous interpretation of Exodus 3 and the spoiling (or plundering) of the Egyptians, which he argued should be the Christian's attitude toward secular Greek learning: "But I am anxious that you should devote all the strength of your natural good parts to Christianity for your end; and in order to this, I wish to ask you to extract from the philosophy of the Greeks what may serve as a course of study or a preparation for Christianity, and from geometry and astronomy what will serve to explain the sacred Scriptures, in order that all that the sons of the philosophers are wont to say about geometry and music, grammar, rhetoric, and astronomy, as fellow-helpers to philosophy, we may say about philosophy itself, in relation to Christianity."},
	urldate = {2016-08-26TZ},
	journal = {ANF Vol 4 - Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second.},
	author = {{Origen}}
}

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