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On Ephesians
“Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ.”
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.
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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation CCXCVII, The soul's prison (Ephesians 3:1),” in Annotations on the New Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta-nt/299-annotation-ccxcvii-the-soul-s-prison-ephesians-3-1/.
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