What Origen is wrestling with in this passage is perhaps the most scandalous aspect of Christianity; that a man who lived his life in obscurity, & who died in ignominy, is in fact the axis around which cosmic history revolves. Two millennia of familiarity has blunted the claim's radicality.
Ben Wood'There was no need that there should everywhere exist many [...] spirits like Jesus [...] For the one Word was enough, having arisen as the "Sun of righteousness" to send forth from Judea His coming rays into the soul of all who were willing to receive Him' (Origen, "Against Celsus, 6:79").