ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10

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19. (4) of Type and Copy.

In addition to these meanings there is that in which we speak of an arche,⁴⁵⁴⁰

⁴⁵⁴⁰ We must here reproduce the Greek word, as Origen passes to meanings of it which the English “beginning” does not cover.
according to form; thus if the first-born of every creature⁴⁵⁴¹

⁴⁵⁴¹ Coloss. i. 15.
is the image of the invisible God, then the Father is his arche. In the same way Christ is the arche of those who are made according to the image of God. For if men are according to the image, but the image according to the Father; in the first case the Father is the arche of Christ, and in the other Christ is the arche of men, and men are made, not according to that of which he is the image, but according to the image. With this example our passage will agree: “In the arche was the Word.”
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