Commentary on Romans

Commentarii in Romanos

Written about 246, probably in Caesarea Maritima (now Caesarea, Israel). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

The oldest commentary on Romans that survives.

Commentary · first written in Greek (survives in the shorter Latin of Rufinus) · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Nautin (1977): about 243 to 246
Place written probable: Origen lived and taught at Caesarea from about 232 (Eusebius, Church History 6.26-27; Nautin, Origène, 1977)