6.23.1
ΧΧΙΙΙ. Ἐξ ἐκείνου δὲ καὶ Ὠριγένει τῶν εἰς τὰς θείας γραφὰς ὑπομνημάτων ἐγίνετο ἀρχή Ἀμβροσίου παρορμῶντος αὐτὸν μυρίαις ὅσαις οὐ προτροπαῖς ταῖς διὰ λόγων καὶ παρακλήσεσιν αὐτὸ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀφθονωτάταις τῶν ἐπιτηδείων χορηγίαις. ταχυγράφοι τε γὰρ αὐτῷ πλείους ἠ ἑπτὰ τὸν ἀριθμὸν παρῆααν ὑπαγορεύοντι, χρόνοι, τεταγμένοις ἀλλήλους ἀμείβοντες , βιβλιογράφο τε οὐχ ἥττους ἅμα καὶ κόραις ἐπὶ τὸ καλλιγραφεῖν ἠακημέναις· ὧν ἁπάντων τὴν δέουσαν τῶν ἔπι· ἄφθονον περιουσίαν ὁ Ἀμβρόσιος πα εατήαατο· ναὶ μὴν καὶ ἐν τῆ περὶ τὰ θεῖα λόγω ἀακήαει τε καὶ σπουδῇ προθυμίαν ἄφατον αὐτᾷ αυνειαέφερεν, ἦ καὶ μάλιστα αὐτὸν προύτρεπεν ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ὑπομνημάτων αύνταξιν.
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XXIII. From that time also Origen’s commentaries on the divine Scriptures had their beginning, at the instigation of Ambrose, who not only plied him with innumerable verbal exhortations and encouragements, but also provided him ungrudgingly with what was necessary. For as he dictated there were ready at hand more than seven shorthand-writers, who relieved each other at fixed times, as well as copyists and girls skilled in penmanship; and Ambrose supplied without stint the necessary means for all of them. Nay further, he contributed to Origen a vast amount of zeal in the earnest study of the divine oracles, a zeal which more than anything else acted as an incentive to him to compose his commentaries.
6.23.2
Τούτων δὲ οὕτως ἐχόντων, Οὐρβανὸν ἐπισκοπεύσαντα τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐκκλησίας ἔτεαιν ὀκτὼ διαδέχεται Ποντιανός, τῆς δ’ Ἀντιοχέων μετὸ Φιλητὸν Ζέβεννος· καθ’ οὓς Ὠριγένης, ἐπειγούσης χρείας ἐκκλησιαστικῶν ἕνεκα πραγμάτων ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ατειλάμενος τὴν διὰ Παλαιστίνης, πρεσβείου χειροθεαίαν ἐν Καισαρείᾳ πρὸς τῶν τῇδε ἐπισκόπων ἀναλαμβάνει. τὰ μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ τούτῳ περὶ αὐτοῦ κεκινημένα τά τε ἐπὶ τοῖς κινηθεῖσι δεδογμένα τοῖς τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν προεστῶσιν ὅσα τε ἄλλα ἀκμάξων περὶ τὸν θεῖον εἰαενήνεκτα λόγον, ἰδίας δεόμενα συντάξεως, μετρίως ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ ἧς ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ πεποιήμεθα ἀπολογίας ἀνεγράψαμεν.
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Such was the state of affairs when Pontianus succeeded Urban, who had been bishop of the church of the Romans for eight years, and Zebennus came after Philetus as [bishop] of the [church] of the Antiochenes. In their day Origen journeyed to Greece through Palestine because of an urgent necessity in church matters, and received the laying-on of hands for the presbyterate at Caesarea from the bishops there. The agitation that was set on foot concerning him on this account, and the decisions made by those who presided over the churches on the matters agitated, as well as the other contributions that he made as he was reaching his prime to the study of the divine Word, require a separate composition, and we have given a fairly full account of them in the second [book] of the Apology that we have written on his behalf.