Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Let us now look also to the New Testament, where Satan\r\napproaches the Saviour, and tempts Him: wherein also it\r\nis stated that evil spirits and unclean demons, which had\r\ntaken possession of very many, were expelled by the Saviour\r\nfrom the bodies of the sufferers, who are said also to be\r\nmade free by Him. Even Judas, too, when the devil had\r\nalready put it in his heart to betray Christ, afterwards received\r\nSatan wholly into him; for it is written, that after\r\nthe sop “Satan entered into him.”<a id=\"r615\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f615\"><sup>[615]</sup></a> And the Apostle Paul\r\nteaches us that we ought not to give place to the devil; but\r\n“put on,” he says, “the armour of God, that ye may be\r\nable to resist the wiles of the devil:”<a id=\"r616\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f616\"><sup>[616]</sup></a> pointing out that\r\nthe saints have to “<i>wrestle</i> not against flesh and blood, but\r\nagainst principalities, against powers, against the rulers of\r\nthe darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_225\">225</span>places.”<a id=\"r617\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f617\"><sup>[617]</sup></a> Nay, he says that the Saviour even was crucified\r\nby the princes of this world, who shall come to nought,<a id=\"r618\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f618\"><sup>[618]</sup></a>\r\nwhose wisdom also, he says, he does not speak. By all this,\r\ntherefore, holy Scripture teaches us that there are certain\r\ninvisible enemies that fight against us, and against whom it\r\ncommands us to arm ourselves. Whence, also, the more\r\nsimple among the believers in the Lord Christ are of opinion,\r\nthat all the sins which men have committed are caused by\r\nthe persistent efforts of these opposing powers exerted upon\r\nthe minds of sinners, because in that invisible struggle these\r\npowers are found to be superior [to man]. For if, for\r\nexample, there were no devil, no single human being<a id=\"r619\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f619\"><sup>[619]</sup></a> would\r\ngo astray.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER II. ON THE OPPOSING POWERS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-244"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0f8b0d8f621fa050a2bbd38560a1ccc60f0fa3fa8246d530e393cf6fde8b1bf6","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f619","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":"f619","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f619\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r619\">619</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Nemo hominum omnino.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f619","text_sha256":"c7d3fc55ebf820c525a99f5e210fa8a18c017fecb0e3492dfb77d7a48dfd3cf8","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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