Vox Patrum (Dec 2018)

Uczta demonów: Orygenesa "Contra celsum" VIII 30 i Porfiriusza "De abstinentia" II 42-43

  • Ewa Osek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.3274
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 69

Abstract

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The paper is to compare two parallel passages: Origen Contra Celsum VIII 30 and Porphyry De abstinentia II 42-43, which both concern meat-eating demo­nized as “demons’ feast”, and to inquire into a cause of this parallelism. The cause was a closest personal relationship between Origen and Porphyry in the years A.D. 244-249, as well as their indebtedness in a common source, hypothetically, Origen the Egyptian who published his treatise De daemonibus before A.D. 253.

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