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Commentary on Matthew, Book 13

Origen’s third-century comment on John the Baptist and Elijah, where he rejects transmigration of souls as foreign to the church.

Citation

Origen, Commentary on Matthew 13.1.

Use

Used to show that Origen, the theologian most often linked to the reincarnation-removal claim, explicitly rejected transmigration and read the Elijah sayings without it.