Origen Quote

As for the apostolic epistles, what person who is skilled in literary interpretation would think them to be plain and easily understood, when even in them there are thousands of passages that provide, as it through a window, a narrow opening leading to multitudes of the deepest thoughts?

How divine scripture should be interpreted, On First Principles, book 4, chapter 2, § 2, Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 69