Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">1. But since the discourse has reminded us of the subjects\r\nof a future judgment and of retribution, and of the\r\npunishments of sinners, according to the threatenings of\r\nholy Scripture and the contents of the church’s teaching—viz.,\r\nthat when the time of judgment comes, everlasting fire,\r\nand outer darkness, and a prison, and a furnace, and other\r\npunishments of like nature, have been prepared for sinners—let\r\nus see what our opinions on these points ought to be.\r\nBut that these subjects may be arrived at in proper order,\r\nit seems to me that we ought first to consider the nature\r\nof the resurrection, that we may know what that [body] is\r\nwhich shall come either to punishment, or to rest, or to happiness;\r\nwhich question in other treatises which we have composed\r\nregarding the resurrection we have discussed at greater\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_137\">137</span>length, and have shown what our opinions were regarding it.\r\nBut now, also, for the sake of logical order in our treatise, there\r\nwill be no absurdity in re-stating a few points from such\r\nworks, especially since some take offence at the creed of the\r\nchurch, as if our belief in the resurrection were foolish, and\r\naltogether devoid of sense; and these are principally heretics,\r\nwho, I think, are to be answered in the following manner.\r\nIf they also admit that there is a resurrection of the dead,\r\nlet them answer us this, What is that which died? Was it\r\nnot a body? It is of the body, then, that there will be a resurrection.\r\nLet them next tell us if they think that we are to\r\nmake use of bodies or not. I think that when the Apostle\r\nPaul says, that “it is sown a natural body, it will arise a\r\nspiritual body,”<a id=\"r317\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f317\"><sup>[317]</sup></a> they cannot deny that it is a body which\r\narises, or that in the resurrection we are to make use of\r\nbodies. What then? If it is certain that we are to make\r\nuse of bodies, and if the bodies which have fallen are declared\r\nto rise again (for only that which before has fallen\r\ncan be properly said to rise again), it can be a matter of\r\ndoubt to no one that they rise again, in order that we may\r\nbe clothed with them a second time at the resurrection. The\r\none thing is closely connected with the other. For if bodies\r\nrise again, they undoubtedly rise to be coverings for us; and\r\nif it is necessary for us to be invested with bodies, as it is\r\ncertainly necessary, we ought to be invested with no other\r\nthan our own. But if it is true that these rise again, and\r\nthat they arise “spiritual” bodies, there can be no doubt that\r\nthey are said to rise from the dead, after casting away corruption\r\nand laying aside mortality; otherwise it will appear\r\nvain and superfluous for any one to arise from the dead in\r\norder to die a second time. And this, finally, may be more\r\ndistinctly comprehended thus, if one carefully consider what\r\nare the qualities of an animal body, which, when sown into\r\nthe earth, recovers the qualities of a spiritual body. For it\r\nis out of the animal body that the very power and grace of\r\nthe resurrection educe the spiritual body, when it transmutes\r\nit from a condition of indignity to one of glory.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER X. ON THE RESURRECTION, AND THE JUDGMENT, THE FIRE OF HELL, AND PUNISHMENTS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-179"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1788e23639a917bcbffbf66565380466f15b7bf1a30d6e3fa8db62a61da09300","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xv. 44","verse":44,"verse_end":44}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f317","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":"f317","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f317\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r317\">317</a>.  </span>1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"fifteen\">xv.</abbr> 44: natural, animale.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f317","text_sha256":"d33be9c29f2168761dbd9b8c8bc175ded3495757b5ac99b59a31acc57ed7e7f5","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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