It is strange that Origen asserts that the earth is a prison for an already fallen soul to prevent further evil, because he ignores the word in the Bible that God saw that it was good. In this creation, had no one sinned, the world would have been filled and beautified with natures good without exception; and though there is sin, all things are not therefore full of sin, for the great majority of the heavenly inhabitants preserve their nature's integrity. And even fallen natures contribute to Gods plan and orderliness of the world producing beauty.
Moreover he asserts that the different bodies are possessed by different souls, in the degree that they were good or bad; but that is easily contradicted because every man received the same earthly body even before doing any sin, and because the orderliness of the world cannot correlate with an accidental ordering of fallen souls.
So we conclude with what we have stated: that we can answer the following questions about the world: Who created it? God. How? Through the word of God. Why? Because he is good. If these three facts are a mystical indication of the trinity of God, of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we cannot explore in this book completely [see also the later book of Augustine, 'De Trinitate'].
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