Origen on uniting all under one law

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"After this he utters a sort of wish: Would that it were possible to unite under one law the inhabitants of Asia, Europe, and Libya, both Greeks and barbarians even at the furthest limits. As if he though this impossible he continues that he who thinks this know nothing. [...] his remark about uniting every rational being under one law is not only possible but even true. [...] at some time the Logos will have overcome the entire rational nature, and will have remodelled every soul to his perfection, when each individual simply by the exercise of his freedom will choose what the Logos wills and will be in that state which he has chosen. [...] it is probably true that such a condition is impossible for those who are still in the body; but it is certainly not impossible after they have been delivered from it." (Con. Cel. 8,72)

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