Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. Now we are of opinion that every rational creature,\r\nwithout any distinction, receives a share of Him in the same\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_115\">115</span>way as of the Wisdom and of the Word of God. I observe,\r\nhowever, that the chief advent of the Holy Spirit is declared\r\nto men, after the ascension of Christ to heaven, rather than\r\nbefore His coming into the world. For, before that, it was\r\nupon the prophets alone, and upon a few individuals—if there\r\nhappened to be any among the people deserving of it—that\r\nthe gift of the Holy Spirit was conferred; but after the advent\r\nof the Saviour, it is written that the prediction of the prophet\r\nJoel was fulfilled, “In the last days it shall come to pass, and\r\nI will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and they shall prophesy,”<a id=\"r251\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f251\"><sup>[251]</sup></a>\r\nwhich is similar to the well-known statement, “All\r\nnations shall serve Him.”<a id=\"r252\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f252\"><sup>[252]</sup></a> By the grace, then, of the Holy\r\nSpirit, along with numerous other results, this most glorious\r\nconsequence is clearly demonstrated, that with regard to those\r\nthings which were written in the prophets or in the law of\r\nMoses, it was only a few persons at that time, viz. the prophets\r\nthemselves, and scarcely another individual out of\r\nthe whole nation, who were able to look beyond the mere\r\ncorporeal meaning and discover something greater, <i>i.e.</i> something\r\nspiritual, in the law or in the prophets; but now there\r\nare countless multitudes of believers who, although unable to\r\nunfold methodically and clearly the results of their spiritual\r\nunderstanding,<a id=\"r253\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f253\"><sup>[253]</sup></a> are nevertheless most firmly persuaded that\r\nneither ought circumcision to be understood literally, nor the\r\nrest of the Sabbath, nor the pouring out of the blood of an\r\nanimal, nor that answers were given by God to Moses on these\r\npoints. And this method of apprehension is undoubtedly suggested\r\nto the minds of all by the power of the Holy Spirit.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VII. ON THE HOLY SPIRIT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-162"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f65eeeea7712ce04450eb19296d7fb5e5ffa7737b96855143003a33346b561be","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f253","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":"f253","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f253\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r253\">253</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Qui licet non omnes possint per ordinem atque ad liquidum spiritualis\r\nintelligentiæ explanare consequentiam.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f253","text_sha256":"8cef8ea17252c92c48faaabd5bb99ff6f885b1919d96186a2708f586cb892b38","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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