The following is an epitome of
the argument:
1. I must submit to the taunts
of my adversary as Christ did to those of the Jews.
2. Yet the substantial charges
must be answered.
3. I praised him but he has
wounded me.
4. I am no heretic, but declare
my faith, that of my baptism.
5. I give a further proof of my
faith in the resurrection of the flesh.
6–9. The resurrection body
is a spiritual body.
10. Origen’s doctrines in
the Περὶ
᾽Αρχῶν
11. What led to the
translation.
12, 13. Pamphilus Apology for
Origen.
14. Preface to the Translation
of the Περὶ
᾽Αρχῶν
15. Treatise on the Adulteration
of the works of Origen.
16. The difficulties of
translation.
17. Explanation of
Origen’s words “The Son does not see the
Father.”
18. Difference between seeing
and knowing.
19. The Translation interpolated
by Eusebius of Cremona.
20. Eusebius, if acting
honestly, should have shown me what he thought dangerous.
21. Jerome’s method of
translation was the same as mine.
22. Jerome’s reference to
his Commentary on the Ephesians.
23. Jerome has not really
changed his mind about Origen.
24. Women turned into men and
bodies into souls.
25. The foundation (καταβολή) of the world explained by Jerome as a casting
down.
26. Jerome, under the name of
“another,” gives his own views.
27. The fall of souls into human
bodies is taught by Jerome.
28. Predestination.
29. “Another,” who
gives strange views, is Jerome himself.
30. “Hopers” and
“fore-hopers.”
31. and 30 (a). Jerome has
confessed these views to be his own.
31 (a) and 32. Further
identification of Jerome’s views with Origen’s.
33. The commentary on the
Ephesians, selected by Jerome, is his condemnation.
34, 35. Principalities and
Powers.
36. Jerome’s complaint of
new doctrines may be retorted on himself.
38, 39. Origin of men, angels, and heavenly bodies.
40, 41. The body as a
prison.
42. All creatures, including the
fallen angel, partaking in the final restoration.
43. Arrogance of Jerome’s
teaching.
44. If Origen is not to be
pardoned, neither is Jerome.