Origen – Scripture is sealed; the analogy of rooms and keys

Origen – Scripture is sealed; the analogy of rooms and keys
From Commentary on the 1st Psalm as cited in The Philocalia of Origen
CHAP. II. — That the Divine Scripture is closed up and sealed. From the Commentary on the 1st Psalm.
1. The Divine words say that the Divine Scriptures have been closed up and sealed [...]

The ‘Strange Woman’ of Proverbs

The ‘Strange Woman’ of Proverbs
The Book of Proverbs refers to the strange woman. For example, Chapter 5 says:
[1] My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
[2] That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
[3] For the lips of a strange woman drop as an [...]

Philo of Alexandria – Passover symbolism (Part 2)

Philo of Alexandria – Passover symbolism (Part 2)
Philo treats passover symbolism much more extensively in Questions on Exodus. This book is not found in the Yonge edition, but is available in the Loeb Classical Library (Philo, Supplement 2), Ralph Marcus, translator.
Apparently this work is out of copyright and can be found at archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/questionsanswers02philuoft
Here is [...]

Philo of Alexandria – Passover symbolism (Part 1)

Philo of Alexandria – Passover symbolism (Part 1)
In several of his works, Philo of Alexandria allegorically interprets the passover rituals of Exodus.
Following are excerpts from the well-known Charles Duke Yonge translation, available online at Early Jewish Writings and elsewhere:

The Special Laws II (Spec. 2.145-2.147)
http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/text/philo/book28.html
XXVII. (145) And after the feast of the new moon comes the [...]

St Athanasius on Psalm 1

From an Easter letter by Saint Athanasius, bishop
The Paschal sacrament brings together in unity of faith those who are far away
Brethren, how fine a thing it is to move from festival to festival, from prayer to prayer, from holy day to holy day. The time is now at hand when we enter on a new [...]

Philo – the Rivers of Eden in On the Posterity of Cain

ON THE POSTERITY OF CAIN AND HIS EXILE 32.127
XXXVII. (127) On which account it is said in Genesis, “And a fountain went up from the earth, and watered all the face of the Earth.”{55}{#ge 2:6.} For since nature has allotted the most excellent portion of the whole body, namely the face, to the outward senses, [...]

Philo on the temptation of Adam and Eve

ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION, II{*}
II. (4) …”For I will make him,” says God, “a help-meet for him.” And, in the second place, is younger than the object to be helped; for, first of all, God created the mind [i.e., Adam], and subsequently he prepares to make its helper [Eve, as we shall see]. But all this [...]

Exegesis of the Fall of Adam and Eve in Lombard’s Sentences

Exegesis of the Fall Adam and Eve in Lombard’s Sentences
Book 2, Distinction 24
Chapter IV.
On (man’s) sensuality.
For the sensuality is a certain inferior force of the soul, out of which there is a movement, which is intended for [intenditur in] the senses of the7 body and the appetite for things pertaining to the body; but the [...]