The crucified Jesus, Mary and John on both sides of the cross: this is the first Church (not yet Peter's, but already John's) to which Jesus gives the Spirit of Svop (Luke 23:46) and the sacraments (John 19:34).

No one dared to reveal [the Lord's] divinity more clearly than John did. It is necessary to download directly: the Gospels are the fulfillment of the entire Bible, while the Gospel of John is the perfection of the Gospels. No one can comprehend its meaning if he has not reclined on the breast of Jesus, if he has not accepted Mary, the mother of Jesus, so that she has become equal to his mother.

Origen

Commentary on the Gospel of John, 1, 6.

Through Spirit-directed contemplation, the divine meaning of Scripture is to be understood over and above the literal sense of Scripture. The Fathers do not know fundamentalism, but only the Scriptures revealed to them by the Spirit to the innermost depths: the Trinitarian sacrament, the source of Love; and Christ's victory over death and hell – the triumph of Love.

If you try to reduce the Divine meaning to the purely external meaning of words, the Word will not deem it necessary to descend to you, it will return to its secret abode, worthy of its contemplation.

Origen

Commentary on Proverbs, 23.

Origen, whose brilliant thought has fertilized all Christian spirituality, first of all in the East, but not only, Origen compares Scripture to almonds. He himself is a divinely inspired exegete, and if his thought in other respects needed to be corrected, in this area he wholly and undoubtedly remains the source that nourishes us.

The bitter peel of almonds is a killing letter that should be discarded.

The protective shell is a moral teaching that encourages purifying and patient asceticism as a necessary path of deepening

Only then is the spiritual seed attained, which alone is of value and nourishes the soul with the mysteries of Divine Wisdom.