Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">4, With respect to those, indeed, who teach differently\r\nregarding Christ from what the rule of Scripture allows, it\r\nis no idle task to ascertain whether it is from a treacherous\r\npurpose that these opposing powers, in their struggles to prevent\r\na belief in Christ, have devised certain fabulous and\r\nimpious doctrines; or whether, on hearing the word of Christ,\r\nand not being able to cast it forth from the secrecy of their\r\nconscience, nor yet to retain it pure and holy, they have, by\r\nmeans of vessels that were convenient to their use,<a id=\"r684\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f684\"><sup>[684]</sup></a> and, so to\r\nspeak, through their prophets, introduced various errors contrary\r\nto the rule of Christian truth. Now we are to suppose\r\nrather that apostate and refugee powers,<a id=\"r685\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f685\"><sup>[685]</sup></a> which have departed\r\nfrom God out of the very wickedness of their mind and\r\nwill,<a id=\"r686\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f686\"><sup>[686]</sup></a> or from envy of those for whom there is prepared (on\r\ntheir becoming acquainted with the truth) an ascent to the\r\nsame rank, whence they themselves had fallen, did, in order\r\nto prevent any progress of that kind, invent these errors and\r\ndelusions of false doctrine. It is then clearly established, by\r\nmany proofs, that while the soul of man exists in this body,\r\nit may admit different energies, <i>i.e.</i> operations, from a diversity\r\nof good and evil spirits. Now, of wicked spirits there\r\nis a twofold mode of operation: <i>i.e.</i> when they either take\r\ncomplete and entire possession of the mind,<a id=\"r687\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f687\"><sup>[687]</sup></a> so as to allow\r\ntheir captives<a id=\"r688\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f688\"><sup>[688]</sup></a> the power neither of understanding nor feeling;\r\nas, for instance, is the case with those commonly called\r\npossessed,<a id=\"r689\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f689\"><sup>[689]</sup></a> whom we see to be deprived of reason, and insane\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_242\">242</span>(such as those were who are related in the Gospel to have\r\nbeen cured by the Saviour); or when by their wicked suggestions\r\nthey deprave a sentient and intelligent soul with\r\nthoughts of various kinds, persuading it to evil, of which\r\nJudas is an illustration, who was induced at the suggestion\r\nof the devil to commit the crime of treason, according to the\r\ndeclaration of Scripture, that “the devil had already put it\r\ninto the heart of Judas Iscariot to betray Him.”<a id=\"r690\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f690\"><sup>[690]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER III. ON THREEFOLD WISDOM."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-254"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bcb2366e270d9fcc364a8925b05455057e55094642037b600df81d0aee8c741f","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f686","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f686","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f686\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r686\">686</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Propositi.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f686","text_sha256":"009d927a4e7f47affe174c67d26d97078f0fbc5a4e5943382d246b4f46824a75","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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