Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this, not understanding how it has been said that\r\n“every one who exalteth himself shall be abased;”<a id=\"r427\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f427\"><sup>[427]</sup></a> nor\r\n(although taught even by Plato) that “the good and virtuous\r\nman walketh humbly and orderly;” and ignorant, moreover, that\r\nwe give the injunction, “Humble yourselves, therefore, under\r\nthe mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time;”<a id=\"r428\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f428\"><sup>[428]</sup></a>\r\nhe says that “those persons who preside properly over a trial\r\nmake those individuals who bewail before them their evil deeds\r\nto cease from their piteous wailings, lest their decisions should\r\nbe determined rather by compassion than by a regard to truth;\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_143\">143</span>whereas God does not decide in accordance with truth, but in\r\naccordance with flattery.”<a id=\"r429\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f429\"><sup>[429]</sup></a> Now, what words of flattery and\r\npiteous wailing are contained in the Holy Scriptures when the\r\nsinner says in his prayers to God, “I have acknowledged my\r\nsin, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my\r\ntransgression to the Lord,” etc. etc.? For is he able to show\r\nthat a procedure of this kind is not adapted to the conversion of\r\nsinners, who humble themselves in their prayers under the hand\r\nof God? And, becoming confused by his effort to accuse us,\r\nhe contradicts himself; appearing at one time to know a man\r\n“without sin,” and “a righteous man, who can look up to God\r\n[adorned] with virtue from the beginning;” and at another\r\ntime accepting our statement that there is no man altogether\r\nrighteous, or without sin;<a id=\"r430\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f430\"><sup>[430]</sup></a> for, as if he admitted its truth, he\r\nremarks, “This is indeed apparently true, that somehow the\r\nhuman race is naturally inclined to sin.” In the next place, as\r\nif all men were not invited by the word, he says, “All men,\r\nthen, without distinction, ought to be invited, since all indeed\r\nare sinners.” And yet, in the preceding pages, we have pointed\r\nout the words of Jesus: “Come unto me, <i>all</i> ye that labour and\r\nare heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”<a id=\"r431\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f431\"><sup>[431]</sup></a> <i>All</i> men, therefore,\r\nlabouring and being heavy laden on account of the nature\r\nof sin, are invited to the rest spoken of in the word of God,\r\n“for God sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them\r\nfrom their destructions.”<a id=\"r432\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f432\"><sup>[432]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-200"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"02513e7356eefe56aeb588df9780683a10cfd480be097a430aa2890cb4d30b79","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-f429","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":"f429","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f429\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r429\">429</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">πρὸς κολακείαν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f429","text_sha256":"8d5ce2398d0799aaf81c9606b3c47356e4f299121d66ff97b2d67b088c6772fe","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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