In some cases, Origen was not prepared to provide fitting contexts in which their words might be spoken by his audience, but in others, he could be found teaching his audience to use female characters' words as exemplary prayers, as words of encouragement in the face of a situation that ...
And what of the statement in Romans 15:4 that the scripture was written for our instruction and encouragement in hope. And who but the biblically illiterate could forget the story of Phillip helping the Ethiopian eunuch to understand what he was reading from the scroll of Isaiah (Acts 8). R...