Origen’s interpretation of the creation of man and his state before the first sin has been the reason for vehement critics, which adduced to Origen’s damnation. Origen has been accused to have accepted only a spiritual existence of human beings in Paradise and to have related the corporality of man to his sin. Not only other authors speak about, but also some texts of Origen himself seem to confirm this opinion. There are nevertheless also testimonies that Origen understood the human beings in paradise as corporal ones.
My purpose in this paper is to comment on some texts of the controversial origenian interpretation of Gen. 3:21, namely whether Origen saw some logical relation between the corporality and the sin of man and which kind of corporality did he mean. I will also analyze a fragment from the origenian comment on 1Cor., which speaks about the resurrection of the dead. The parallel analyze of texts concerning the end-state of human beings help us to suppose which has been the origenian opinion about the corporality in the Paradise. A particular attention I will give to eventual Jewish and especially rabbinic influences on Origen’s interpretation of the creation and sin of man.
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