I think it is interesting that Origen expounds on the distinction between "number" and "measure" in Book II Chapter IX. However, he overanalyzes the distinction. He notes that "number" is used to refer to rational creatures and "measure" is used to refer to bodily matter, but that verse is taken out of context. The full verse (in the Apocrypha) actually ends by saying, "but thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight." So really, the verse is speaking about "measure" as in height not "measure" as in number. Didn't he spend the majority of the first book pointing out that the Bible is not to be taken out of context? Contradictions, Origen, contradictions.
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