The composition for the prologue to the Commentary on John by Origen

This paper aims to set out a coherent structure for the prologue to the Commentary on John by Origen. Indeed, this prologue is rather long and difficult to understand as a whole. First, the paper presents and compares the different structures suggested by other researchers. Then, prolonging their works, it sets out a precise structure, from a literary point of view. Indeed, when reading the text closely, we notice that the composition of the whole prologue is based on two particular words: first, alpha pi alpha rho chi eta) (first fruits) and words of the same family are used by the exeget to build a hierarchy that highlights the Gospel of John, then the word epsilon upsilon-alpha gamma gamma epsilon lambda iota o nu (gospel) is studied and defined in the second part of the prologue.