Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The term <span lang=\"grc\">ἀσώματον</span>, <i>i.e.</i> incorporeal, is disused and unknown,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_6\">6</span>not only in many other writings, but also in our own\r\nScriptures. And if any one should quote it to us out of the\r\nlittle treatise entitled <i>The Doctrine of Peter</i>,<a id=\"r15\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f15\"><sup>[15]</sup></a> in which the\r\nSaviour seems to say to His disciples, “I am not an incorporeal\r\ndemon,”<a id=\"r16\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f16\"><sup>[16]</sup></a> I have to reply, in the first place, that that work\r\nis not included among ecclesiastical books; for we can show\r\nthat it was not composed either by Peter or by any other\r\nperson inspired by the Spirit of God. But even if the point\r\nwere to be conceded, the word <span lang=\"grc\">ἀσώματον</span> there does not convey\r\nthe same meaning as is intended by Greek and Gentile\r\nauthors when incorporeal nature is discussed by philosophers.\r\nFor in the little treatise referred to he used the phrase\r\n“incorporeal demon” to denote that that form or outline\r\nof demoniacal body, whatever it is, does not resemble this\r\ngross and visible body of ours; but, agreeably to the intention\r\nof the author of the treatise, it must be understood to\r\nmean that He had not such a body as demons have, which\r\nis naturally fine,<a id=\"r17\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f17\"><sup>[17]</sup></a> and thin as if formed of air (and for this\r\nreason is either considered or called by many incorporeal),\r\nbut that He had a solid and palpable body. Now, according\r\nto human custom, everything which is not of that nature is\r\ncalled by the simple or ignorant incorporeal; as if one were to\r\nsay that the air which we breathe was incorporeal, because\r\nit is not a body of such a nature as can be grasped and held,\r\nor can offer resistance to pressure.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","PREFACE."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-62"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a0ef6015ae167e0528a0ad60c557bc22437bd3888ff11621516b1c32b50b72a2","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f16","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":"f16","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f16\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r16\">16</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Dæmonium</span>.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f16","text_sha256":"92e349647a689e483bb880d698000b8bbb1c0f7d74627e7c074a27c917a29bb7","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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