Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, however, asserts that the answer which we give\r\nis based upon a probable conjecture,<a id=\"r1376\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1376\"><sup>[1376]</sup></a> admitting that he describes\r\nour answer in the following terms: “Since God is\r\ngreat and difficult to see,<a id=\"r1377\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1377\"><sup>[1377]</sup></a> He put His own Spirit into a body\r\nthat resembled ours, and sent it down to us, that we might be\r\nenabled to hear Him and become acquainted with Him.” But\r\nthe God and Father of all things is not the only being that is\r\ngreat in our judgment; for He has imparted [a share] of\r\nHimself and His greatness to His only-begotten and first-born\r\nof every creature, in order that He, being the image of the\r\ninvisible God, might preserve, even in His greatness, the image\r\nof the Father. For it was not possible that there could exist\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_412\">412</span>a well-proportioned,<a id=\"r1378\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1378\"><sup>[1378]</sup></a> so to speak, and beautiful image of the\r\ninvisible God, which did not at the same time preserve the\r\nimage of His greatness. God, moreover, is in our judgment\r\ninvisible, because He is not a body, while He <i>can</i> be seen by\r\nthose who see with the heart, that is, the understanding; not\r\nindeed with any kind of heart, but with one which is pure.\r\nFor it is inconsistent with the fitness of things that a polluted\r\nheart should look upon God; for that must be itself pure which\r\nwould worthily behold that which is pure. Let it be granted,\r\nindeed, that God is “difficult to see,” yet He is not the only\r\nbeing who is so; for His Only-begotten also is “difficult to see.”\r\nFor God the Word is “difficult to see,” and so also is His<a id=\"r1379\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1379\"><sup>[1379]</sup></a> wisdom,\r\nby which God created all things. For who is capable of\r\nseeing the wisdom which is displayed in each individual part of\r\nthe whole system of things, and by which God created every\r\nindividual thing? It was not, then, because God was “difficult\r\nto see” that He sent God His Son to be an object “easy to be\r\nseen.”<a id=\"r1380\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1380\"><sup>[1380]</sup></a> And because Celsus does not understand this, he has\r\nrepresented us as saying, “Because God was ‘difficult to see,’\r\nHe put His own Spirit in a body resembling ours, and sent it\r\ndown to us, that we might be enabled to hear Him and become\r\nacquainted with Him.” Now, as we have stated, the Son also is\r\n“difficult to see,” because He is God the Word, through whom\r\nall things were made, and who “tabernacled amongst us.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-464"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7e77e2012f02267eb35bf472b94d68e1f98d94aa9fcf3abfc7712a5f0960fab7","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-f1378","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":"f1378","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1378\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1378\">1378</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">σύμμετρον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1378","text_sha256":"65080137e10bb2e11be499375b8d3b64e7bdc9af0893bbb0810b340789862ac6","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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