Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this he continues: “Their union is the more wonderful,\r\nthe more it can be shown to be based on no substantial reason.\r\nAnd yet rebellion is a substantial reason, as well as the advantages\r\nwhich accrue from it, and the fear of external enemies.\r\nSuch are the causes which give stability to their faith.” To\r\nthis we answer, that our union does thus rest upon a reason, or\r\nrather not upon a reason, but upon the divine working,<a id=\"r286\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f286\"><sup>[286]</sup></a> so that\r\nits commencement was God’s teaching men, in the prophetical\r\nwritings, to expect the advent of Christ, who was to be the\r\nSaviour of mankind. For in so far as this point is not really\r\nrefuted (although it may <i>seem</i> to be by unbelievers), in the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_97\">97</span>same proportion is the doctrine commended as the doctrine of\r\nGod, and Jesus shown to be the Son of God both before and\r\nafter His incarnation. I maintain, moreover, that even after\r\nHis incarnation, He is always found by those who possess the\r\nacutest spiritual vision to be most God-like, and to have really\r\ncome down to us from God, and to have derived His origin or\r\nsubsequent development not from human wisdom, but from\r\nthe manifestation<a id=\"r287\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f287\"><sup>[287]</sup></a> of God within Him, who by His manifold\r\nwisdom and miracles established Judaism first, and Christianity\r\nafterwards; and the assertion that rebellion, and the advantages\r\nattending it, were the originating causes of a doctrine which has\r\nconverted and improved so many men was effectually refuted.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-146"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"201d85bd75aab3e02ad2e77a2d4c21e05c723f0cf22d872f8c8b0cadfd71c701","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f287","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 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f287","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f287\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r287\">287</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐπιφανείας.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f287","text_sha256":"455203765ec9f0d990d20f560be2523a26524741627cc8297147473d1199efbe","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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