Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">18. Let us now look to the expression, “It is not of him\r\nthat willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth\r\nmercy.”<a id=\"r525\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f525\"><sup>[525]</sup></a> For our opponents assert, that if it does not depend\r\nupon him that willeth, nor on him that runneth, but on God\r\nthat showeth mercy, that a man be saved, our salvation is\r\nnot in our own power. For our nature is such as to admit\r\nof our either being saved or not, or else our salvation rests\r\nsolely on the will of Him who, if He wills it, shows mercy,\r\nand confers salvation. Now let us inquire, in the first place,\r\nof such persons, whether to desire blessings be a good or evil\r\nact; and whether to hasten after good as a final aim<a id=\"r526\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f526\"><sup>[526]</sup></a> be\r\nworthy of praise. If they were to answer that such a procedure\r\nwas deserving of censure, they would evidently be\r\nmad; for all holy men both desire blessings and run after\r\nthem, and certainly are not blameworthy. How, then, is it\r\nthat he who is not saved, if he be of an evil nature, desires\r\nblessings, and runs after them, but does not find them? For\r\nthey say that a bad tree does not bring forth good fruits,\r\nwhereas it is a good fruit to desire blessings. And how is\r\nthe fruit of a bad tree good? And if they assert that to\r\ndesire blessings, and to run after them, is an act of indifference,<a id=\"r527\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f527\"><sup>[527]</sup></a>\n<i>i.e.</i> neither good nor bad, we shall reply, that if it be\r\nan indifferent act to desire blessings, and to run after them,\r\nthen the opposite of that will also be an indifferent act, viz.\r\nto desire evils, and to run after them; whereas it is certain that\r\nit is not an indifferent act to desire evils, and to run after\r\nthem, but one that is manifestly wicked. It is established,\r\nthen, that to desire and follow after blessings is not an\r\nindifferent, but a virtuous proceeding.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-231"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5129938dd72a995ae9963d6b1b4c8ecf438f1f94263068289ba7928921ccdcaf","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f527","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":"f527","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f527\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r527\">527</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Medium est velle bona.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f527","text_sha256":"4f00040b7a979e45a4fea58e146f98edd4311a64e4848617d8f7293654c95cd1","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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