Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">19. But that no one may suppose that we assert respecting\r\nthe whole that no history is real<a id=\"r970\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f970\"><sup>[970]</sup></a> because a certain one is\r\nnot; and that no law is to be literally observed, because a\r\ncertain one, [understood] according to the letter, is absurd\r\nor impossible; or that the statements regarding the Saviour\r\nare not true in a manner perceptible to the senses;<a id=\"r971\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f971\"><sup>[971]</sup></a> or that\r\nno commandment and precept of his ought to be obeyed;—we\r\nhave to answer that, with regard to certain things, it is\r\nperfectly clear to us that the historical account is true; as\r\nthat Abraham was buried in the double cave at Hebron, as\r\nalso Isaac and Jacob, and the wives of each of them; and\r\nthat Shechem was given as a portion to Joseph;<a id=\"r972\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f972\"><sup>[972]</sup></a> and that\r\nJerusalem is the metropolis of Judea, in which the temple\r\nof God was built by Solomon; and innumerable other statements.\r\nFor the passages that are true in their historical\r\nmeaning are much more numerous than those which are\r\ninterspersed with a purely spiritual signification. And again,\r\nwho would not say that the command which enjoins to\r\n“honour thy father and thy mother, that it may be well\r\nwith thee,”<a id=\"r973\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f973\"><sup>[973]</sup></a> is useful, apart from all allegorical meaning,<a id=\"r974\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f974\"><sup>[974]</sup></a>\r\nand ought to be observed, the Apostle Paul also having\r\nemployed these very same words? And what need is there\r\nto speak of the [prohibitions], “Thou shalt not commit\r\nadultery,” “Thou shalt not kill,” “Thou shalt not steal,”\r\n“Thou shalt not bear false witness?”<a id=\"r975\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f975\"><sup>[975]</sup></a> And again, there\r\nare commandments contained in the Gospel which admit of\r\nno doubt whether they are to be observed according to the\r\nletter or not; <i>e.g.</i> that which says, “But I say unto you,\r\nWhoever is angry with his brother,”<a id=\"r976\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f976\"><sup>[976]</sup></a> and so on. And again,\r\n“But I say unto you, Swear not at all.”<a id=\"r977\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f977\"><sup>[977]</sup></a> And in the\r\nwritings of the apostle the literal sense is to be retained:\r\n“Warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble-minded,\r\nsupport the weak, be patient towards all men;”<a id=\"r978\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f978\"><sup>[978]</sup></a> although\r\nit is possible for those ambitious of a deeper meaning to\r\nretain the profundities of the wisdom of God, without setting\r\naside the commandment in its literal meaning.<a id=\"r979\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f979\"><sup>[979]</sup></a> The careful\r\n[reader], however, will be in doubt<a id=\"r980\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f980\"><sup>[980]</sup></a> as to certain points,\r\nbeing unable to show without long investigation whether this\r\nhistory so deemed literally occurred or not, and whether the\r\nliteral meaning of this law is to be observed or not. And\r\ntherefore the exact reader must, in obedience to the Saviour’s\r\ninjunction to “search the Scriptures,”<a id=\"r981\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f981\"><sup>[981]</sup></a> carefully ascertain in\r\nhow far the literal meaning is true, and in how far impossible;\r\nand so far as he can, trace out, by means of similar statements,\r\nthe meaning everywhere scattered through Scripture\r\nof that which cannot be understood in a literal signification.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-327"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7fef61c1e05ad4815502e76cea1e4e29a772cfdedc643083e860b69a98cdee6b","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f980","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. 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