These men and those who followed them founded upon scriptural texts and theological reasonings a system that for seventeen centuries defied every advance of thought.( 93) (93) For Origen, se his De Princip., vol.i, p.

7; also Maury, Leg.
pieuses, p.

203, note.

For Bede and others, see De Nat., vol.xxiv; Joh.
Dam., De Fid.

Or.,vol.ii, p.