A Corrupted Book

Clemens apostolorum discipulus, qui Romanae Ecclesiae post apostolos et episcopus et martyr fuit, libros edidit, quia Graece appellantur Ἀναγνωρισμὸς , id est, Recognitio: in quibus cum ex persona Petri apostoli doctrina quasi vere apostolica in quamplurimis exponatur, in aliquibus ita Eunomii domga inseritur, ut nihil aliud quam ipse Eunomius disputare credatur, Filium Dei creatum de nullis exstantibus asseverans. Tum deinde etiam illud adulterii inseritur genus, ut naturam diaboli caeterorumque daemonum non propositi voluntatisque malitia, sed excepta ac separata creaturae produxerit qualitas, qui utique in caeteris omnem rationabilem creaturam docuerit liberi arbitrii facultate donatam. Sunt etiam alia nonnulla libris ejus inserta, quae ecclesiastica regula omnino non recipit. Quid, quaeso, de his sentiendum est? Quod apostolicus vir, imo pene Apostolus, nam ea scribit quae apostoli dicunt, cui Paulus apostolus testimonium dedit, dicens: Cum Clemente, et caeteris adjutoribus meis, quorum nomina sunt in libro vitae: scribebat hoc quod libris vitae contrarium est? An id potius credendum est quod supra diximus, quod perversi homines ad assetionem dogmatum suroum sub virorum sanctorum nomine, tanquam facilius credenda, interserverunt ea quae illi nec sensisse nec scripisse credendi sunt? Rufinus Aquileiensis, De Adulteratione Librorum Origenis Source: Migne PG 17.620b-21b

Clement, the disciple of the Apostles, who was a bishop and a martyr of the Church of Rome after the Apostles, composed some books which in Greek are called 'Anagnorismos', that is 'The Recognition' in which, in the person of the Apostle Peter, a teaching that is very apostolic for the most part is taught, but in some places the teaching of Eunomius is inserted, which can be thought to be nothing but that which Eunomius argued for, asserting that the Son of God was created from nothing. Then finally even that corruption is inserted which claims that the nature of the devil and other demons is not evil because of the choice of the will, but because God produced them as a different and separate type of creature, though in other things it is taught that He gave the faculty of free will to every rational creature. There are not a few of such things inserted in this book, which the ecclesiastical rule does not allow at all. And what then, I ask, shall we think concerning this? That an Apostolic man, indeed almost an Apostle, for he writes these things which they say are of the Apostle, him to whom Paul the Apostle gave witness to, saying: 'With Clement, and others of my helpers, whose names are written in the book of life,' 1 wrote that which is contrary to the book of life? Or rather should it not be believed, as we said above, that perverse men, for the assertion of their own teaching, under the names of holy men, so that they might be more readily believed, inserted these things, which they neither thought nor wrote? Rufinus of Aquileia, On The Corruption of the Books of Origen 1 Philip 4.3