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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 253 CHAPTER XXXVI. Other works written by Origen. also, as was to be expected, our religion spreading more and more, and our brethren beginning to converse more freely with all, Origen, who they say was now more than sixty years of age, and who from long practice had acquired the greatest facility in discoursing, permitted his discourses to be taken down by ready writers, a thing which he had never allowed before. At this time, also, he composed in eight books a reply to that work written against us by Celsus the Epicurean, bearing the title, " The True Doctrine," and the twenty-five books on Mat thew's gospel, those also on the twelve apostles, of which we have found only twenty-five. There is also an epistle of his extant, addressed to the emperor Philip, and another to his wife Severa ; several others also to different persons. Of these as many as we have been able to collect, scattered in the hands of different individuals, we have reduced to certain distinct books, in number exceeding one hundred. But he also wrote to Fabianus bishop of Rome, and to many others of the bishops of churches respect ing his orthodoxy ; and of these you have the proofs in the sixth book of our Apology for the man. CHAPTER XXXVII. The dissension of the Arabians. BUT about this time, also, other men sprung up in Arabia as the propagators of false opinions. These asserted, that the hu man soul, as long as the present state of the world existed, pe rished at death and died with the body, but that it would be raised again with the body at the time of the resurrection. And as a considerable council was held on account of this, Origen being again requested, likewise here discussed the point in qnes