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You are a fine and clever young man, he seemed to say;
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The scholar hesitated, the master insisted. The view was striking in itself, but the teacher's personal gifts made it strike far more effectually.
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He was a mixture, says the scholar,
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The young man, unsettled as his mind had been, yet had always at heart believed in some sort of Divine Being. Origen completed the conquest of his intellect by showing him that without philosophy, that is, without correct views on morality, the worship of God, or _piety_, as it used to be called, is impossible. And yet wisdom and eloquence might have been thrown away here as in so many other cases had not another influence, imperious and all-powerful, been all this time rising up in his heart. The scholar began to love the master. It was not an ordinary love, the love with which Origen inspired his hearers. It was an intense, almost a fierce, love (we are almost translating the words of the original), a fitting response to the genuineness and kindly spirit of one who seemed to think no pains or kindness too great to win the young heart to true morality, and thereby to the worship of the only God--
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says St. Gregory, in his lofty style,
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To that sacred and lovely word, therefore, and to the man who was its interpreter and its friend, sprang up in the heart of the scholar a deep, inextinguishable love. For that the abandoned pursuits and studies which he had hitherto considered indispensable; for that he left the
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laws of Rome, and forsook the friends he had left at home, and the friends that were then at his side.
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And the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David,