Annotation CXCIX

”Whither I go, you cannot come.” — John 8:21

Whether [some] sins are at some time to be remitted.

Origen, in the eighteenth tome on John, while he was expounding this passage, speaking incidentally of the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, said that although that sin is not remitted either in this age or in the [age] to come, yet in the ages which will follow the [age] to come, it will at some time be remitted. This same dogma — reprobated by the catholics — he holds in very many places, but especially in the first volume of the Periarchon [On First Principles].