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Annotation CCXCVII, The soul's prison (Ephesians 3:1)

“Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ.”

Annotation CCXCVII

”Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ.” — Ephesians 3:1

The soul's prison.

Rufinus fastens [it] upon Jerome, that in this place he handed down [taught] the body to be the prison of the soul. Avoiding which calumny, Jerome says that he wrote it not from his own, but from Origen’s, mind.