Origen on healing those unworthy of the mysteries

"It is not, therefore, to mysteries and to share in wisdom 'hidden in a mystery which God foreordained before the ages to the glory' of his saints that we call the dishonest man, the thief, burglar, poisoner, sacrilegious fellow, grave-robber, and any others whom Celsus might name for rhetorical effect, but it is for healing." (Con. Cel. III,61)

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