1Africanus writes to Origen that the story of Susanna is a later addition to Daniel: its puns work only in Greek, its setting does not fit the captivity, it is absent from the Jewish Daniel, and its style differs.
authentic · Eusebius (Church History 6.31) knew of this letter to Origen on the story of Susanna; Origen's reply survives and is on this site.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Writer in the church of his time, not venerated by any of the three traditions.
Older English translation
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (1885) (public domain, at CCEL; for comparison: our translation is made from the original first and checked against it afterwards) · ANF 4 prints it as "The Epistle of Africanus to Origen".
Date
ca. 220–245 (approximate) · Written before Origen's reply from Nicomedia, which falls in the 240s; the exact date is not known.
Written at
Emmaus (Nicopolis), Palestine (probable)
Addressed to
Origen
Language
Greek
Genre
letter
Reference system
one undivided letter (Migne gives it no numbering): section 1
SBL abbreviation
Ep. Orig.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 1704 (unverified)
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Graeca 11 (Paris: Migne, 1857), cols. 41–48 (Printed edition in the public domain; OCR transcription of public-domain page images)
Critical editions
Nicholas de Lange, ed., Origène: Philocalie, Lettre à Africanus sur l'histoire de Suzanne, SC 302 (Paris: Cerf, 1983) (cited, not reproduced)