The text, referring directly to the theme of the writings of Origen of Alexandria Exhortation to Martyrdom, first discusses the aspiration and desire of its author to crown his life on the model of his Father Leonidas and described in the Second Book o f the Maccabean Elazar and seven brothers with martyrdom. Understanding this goal, described as the ideal of the Christian life, is not possible without showing the three meanings of death that the Alexandriac puts forward in his Disputation with Heraclides and the nature of man and the three parts that define it: soma, psyche and pneuma. It is only against this background that both Orygenes’ desire to die a martyr’s death for Christ and to associate it with a state of full joy and happiness, which is the realization of the ideal of God’s Wisdom, becomes comprehensible.
