Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Let us look also at his next statement, in which he introduces,\r\nas it were, a certain person, who, after hearing what has\r\nbeen said, expresses himself in the following manner, “How,\r\nthen, shall I know God? and how shall I learn the way that\r\nleads to Him? And how will you show Him to me? Because\r\nnow, indeed, you throw darkness before my eyes, and I see\r\nnothing distinctly.” He then answers, as it were, the individual\r\nwho is thus perplexed, and thinks that he assigns the\r\nreason why darkness has been poured upon the eyes of him\r\nwho uttered the foregoing words, when he asserts that “those\r\nwhom one would lead forth out of darkness into the brightness\r\nof light, being unable to withstand its splendours, have their\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_409\">409</span>power of vision affected<a id=\"r1368\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1368\"><sup>[1368]</sup></a> and injured, and so imagine that they\r\nare smitten with blindness.” In answer to this, we would say\r\nthat all those indeed sit in darkness, and are rooted in it, who fix\r\ntheir gaze upon the evil handiwork of painters, and moulders\r\nand sculptors, and who will not look upwards, and ascend in\r\nthought from all visible and sensible things, to the Creator\r\nof all things, who is light; while, on the other hand, every\r\none is in light who has followed the radiance of the Word, who\r\nhas shown in consequence of what ignorance, and impiety, and\r\nwant of knowledge of divine things these objects were worshipped\r\ninstead of God, and who has conducted the soul of him\r\nwho desires to be saved towards the uncreated God, who is over\r\nall. For “the people that sat in darkness—the Gentiles—saw\r\na great light, and to them who sat in the region and shadow of\r\ndeath light is sprung up,”<a id=\"r1369\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1369\"><sup>[1369]</sup></a>—the God Jesus. No Christian,\r\nthen, would give Celsus, or any accuser of the divine Word,\r\nthe answer, “How shall I know God?” for each one of them\r\nknows God according to his capacity. And no one asks,\r\n“How shall I learn the way which leads to Him?” because he\r\nhas heard Him who says, “I am the way, and the truth, and\r\nthe life,”<a id=\"r1370\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1370\"><sup>[1370]</sup></a> and has tasted, in the course of the journey, the\r\nhappiness which results from it. And not a single Christian\r\nwould say to Celsus, “How will you show me God?”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-461"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7852be9f41edfedaa74541ff6a707f10892a6e13ed22de25a36d65116f824c08","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-f1368","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":"f1368","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1368\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1368\">1368</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">κολάζεσθαι.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1368","text_sha256":"393316cef649fc0183bc8c5c1708aeede4ef98511bad84dadaba8a621b4a02a7","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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