Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">16. It was not only, however, with the [Scriptures composed]\r\nbefore the advent [of Christ] that the Spirit thus\r\ndealt; but as being the same Spirit, and [proceeding] from\r\nthe one God, He did the same thing both with the evangelists\r\nand the apostles,—as even these do not contain throughout a\r\npure history of events, which are interwoven indeed according\r\nto the letter, but which did not actually occur.<a id=\"r937\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f937\"><sup>[937]</sup></a> Nor\r\neven do the law and the commandments wholly convey what\r\nis agreeable to reason. For who that has understanding will\r\nsuppose that the first, and second, and third day, and the\r\nevening and the morning, existed without a sun, and moon,\r\nand stars? and that the first day was, as it were, also without\r\na sky? And who is so foolish as to suppose that God,\r\nafter the manner of a husbandman, planted a paradise in\r\nEden, towards the east, and placed in it a tree of life, visible\r\nand palpable, so that one tasting of the fruit by the bodily\r\nteeth obtained life? and again, that one was a partaker of\r\ngood and evil by masticating what was taken from the tree?\r\nAnd if God is said to walk in the paradise in the evening,\r\nand Adam to hide himself under a tree, I do not suppose\r\nthat any one doubts that these things figuratively indicate\r\ncertain mysteries, the history having taken place in appearance,\r\nand not literally.<a id=\"r938\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f938\"><sup>[938]</sup></a> Cain also, when going forth from\r\nthe presence of God, certainly appears to thoughtful men\r\nas likely to lead the reader to inquire what is the presence\r\nof God, and what is the meaning of going out from Him.\r\nAnd what need is there to say more, since those who are not\r\naltogether blind can collect countless instances of a similar\r\nkind recorded as having occurred, but which did not literally<a id=\"r939\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f939\"><sup>[939]</sup></a>\r\ntake place? Nay, the Gospels themselves are filled with the\r\nsame kind of narratives; <i>e.g.</i> the devil leading Jesus up into\r\na high mountain, in order to show Him from thence the kingdoms\r\nof the whole world, and the glory of them. For who\r\nis there among those who do not read such accounts carelessly,\r\nthat would not condemn those who think that with\r\nthe eye of the body—which requires a lofty height in order\r\nthat the parts lying [immediately] under and adjacent may\r\nbe seen—the kingdoms of the Persians, and Scythians, and\r\nIndians, and Parthians, were beheld, and the manner in\r\nwhich their princes are glorified among men? And the\r\nattentive reader may notice in the Gospels innumerable other\r\npassages like these, so that he will be convinced that in the\r\nhistories that are literally recorded, circumstances that did\r\nnot occur are inserted.</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-319"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9797792b564c4ce0c146e29e69042020e71c159ab8b7b8b6588597aaa82acf5e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f939","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":"f939","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f939\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r939\">939</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">κατὰ τὴν λέξιν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f939","text_sha256":"58d982271d116e6c12d47c970567ea6fc8d3fb3e3e2b33be96ba3c5372465071","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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