Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">15. But since, if the usefulness of the legislation, and the\r\nsequence and beauty<a id=\"r930\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f930\"><sup>[930]</sup></a> of the history, were universally evident\r\nof itself,<a id=\"r931\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f931\"><sup>[931]</sup></a> we should not believe that any other thing could\r\nbe understood in the Scriptures save what was obvious, the\r\nword of God has arranged that certain stumbling-blocks, as\r\nit were, and offences, and impossibilities, should be introduced\r\ninto the midst of the law and the history, in order that we may\r\nnot, through being drawn away in all directions by the merely\r\nattractive nature of the language,<a id=\"r932\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f932\"><sup>[932]</sup></a> either altogether fall away\r\nfrom the [true] doctrines, as learning nothing worthy of God,\r\nor, by not departing from the letter, come to the knowledge\r\nof nothing more divine. And this also we must know, that\r\nthe principal aim being to announce the “spiritual” connection\r\nin those things that are done, and that ought to be done,\r\nwhere the Word found that things done according to the history\r\ncould be adapted to these mystical senses, He made use\r\nof them, concealing from the multitude the deeper meaning;\r\nbut where, in the narrative of the development of super-sensual\r\nthings,<a id=\"r933\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f933\"><sup>[933]</sup></a> there did not follow the performance of those\r\ncertain events, which was already indicated by the mystical\r\nmeaning, the Scripture interwove in the history [the account\r\nof] some event that did not take place, sometimes what could\r\nnot have happened; sometimes what could, but did not. And\r\nsometimes a few words are interpolated which are not true\r\nin their literal acceptation,<a id=\"r934\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f934\"><sup>[934]</sup></a> and sometimes a larger number.\r\nAnd a similar practice also is to be noticed with regard to\r\nthe legislation, in which is often to be found what is useful\r\nin itself, and appropriate to the times of the legislation; and\r\nsometimes also what does not appear to be of utility; and\r\nat other times impossibilities are recorded for the sake of the\r\nmore skilful and inquisitive, in order that they may give\r\nthemselves to the toil of investigating what is written, and\r\nthus attain to a becoming conviction of the manner in which\r\na meaning worthy of God must be sought out in such subjects.</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-317"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0882af30ec667c21e34b67f614a871b4d13a3a39dde202df85769adb5cef7d32","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f930","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":"f930","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f930\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r930\">930</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">γλαφυρόν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f930","text_sha256":"c5083c3d20cb270038705a42c9ba7fcd0a8d229480d84ce139020104f1cede1f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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