Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">See, then, whether we ought to yield to one who, holding\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_224\">224</span>such opinions, calumniates the Christians, and thus abandon a\r\ndoctrine which explains the difference existing among bodies\r\nas due to the different qualities, internal and external, which\r\nare implanted in them. For we, too, know that there are\r\n“bodies celestial, and bodies terrestrial;” and that “the glory\r\nof the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial another;”\r\nand that even the glory of the celestial bodies is not alike: for\r\n“one is the glory of the sun, and another the glory of the\r\nstars;” and among the stars themselves, “one star differeth from\r\nanother star in glory.”<a id=\"r719\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f719\"><sup>[719]</sup></a> And therefore, as those who expect\r\nthe resurrection of the dead, we assert that the qualities which\r\nare in bodies undergo change: since some bodies, which are sown\r\nin corruption, are raised in incorruption; and others, sown in dishonour,\r\nare raised in glory; and others, again, sown in weakness,\r\nare raised in power; and those which are sown natural bodies,\r\nare raised as spiritual.<a id=\"r720\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f720\"><sup>[720]</sup></a> That the matter which underlies bodies\r\nis capable of receiving those qualities which the Creator pleases\r\nto bestow, is a point which all of us who accept the doctrine of\r\nprovidence firmly hold; so that, if God so willed, one quality\r\nis at the present time implanted in this portion of matter, and\r\nafterwards another of a different and better kind. But since\r\nthere are, from the beginning of the world, laws<a id=\"r721\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f721\"><sup>[721]</sup></a> established\r\nfor the purpose of regulating the changes of bodies, and which\r\nwill continue while the world lasts, I do not know whether,\r\nwhen a new and different order of things has succeeded<a id=\"r722\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f722\"><sup>[722]</sup></a> after\r\nthe destruction of the world, and what our Scriptures call the\r\nend<a id=\"r723\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f723\"><sup>[723]</sup></a> [of the ages], it is not wonderful that at the present time\r\na snake should be formed out of a dead man, growing, as the\r\nmultitude affirm, out of the marrow of the back,<a id=\"r724\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f724\"><sup>[724]</sup></a> and that a\r\nbee should spring from an ox, and a wasp from a horse, and a\r\nbeetle from an ass, and, generally, worms from the most of\r\nbodies. Celsus, indeed, thinks that this can be shown to be\r\nthe consequence of none of these bodies being the work of God,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_225\">225</span>and that qualities (I know not whence it was so arranged that\r\none should spring out of another) are not the work of a divine\r\nintelligence, producing the changes which occur in the qualities\r\nof matter.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-278"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1145e901d0aecaf095f2fca2394c05ebbae2dc6e2bf08264ddd0f6acfddb3cf5","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-f723","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":"f723","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f723\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r723\">723</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">συντέλεια.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f723","text_sha256":"e8d55a64e97f16d501f021f04a2ebe5a5fc2d1a22509d7ca5cdccd0ccfe833d8","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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