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English-language translations of Origen's letter to Africanus, in which he examines the story of Susanna in the Book of Daniel. The story is considered a part of canonical Scripture by Catholics and the Orthodox, but is classed with the "Apocrypha" by Protestants.

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• A Letter from Origen to Africanus

  http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0414.htm
  From the Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4. No notes.

• A Letter to Africanus

  http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf04.vi.vi.html
  Africanus had asked about the story of Susanna in the book of Daniel. Among other things, he notes wordplay in the Greek which would not have worked in Hebrew. This is Origen's response, on why the story of Susanna is used in the Church as canonical. With notes.

 

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