Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">21. And at the same time, it is clearly shown that, as far\r\nas regards the underlying nature,<a id=\"r589\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f589\"><sup>[589]</sup></a> as there is one [piece of]\r\nclay which is under the hands of the potter, from which\r\npiece vessels are formed unto honour and dishonour; so the\r\none nature of every soul being in the hands of God, and, so\r\nto speak, there being [only] one lump of reasonable beings,<a id=\"r590\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f590\"><sup>[590]</sup></a>\r\ncertain causes of more ancient date led to some being created\r\nvessels unto honour, and others vessels unto dishonour. But\r\nif the language of the apostle convey a censure when he says,\r\n“Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?”\r\nit teaches us that he who has confidence before God, and is\r\nfaithful, and has lived virtuously, would not hear the words,\r\n“Who art thou that repliest against God?” Such an one,\r\n<i>e.g.</i>, as Moses was, “For Moses spake, and God answered\r\nhim with a voice;”<a id=\"r591\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f591\"><sup>[591]</sup></a> and as God answers Moses, so does a\r\nsaint also answer God. But he who does not possess this\r\nconfidence, manifestly, either because he has lost it, or because\r\nhe investigates these matters not from a love of knowledge,\r\nbut from a desire to find fault,<a id=\"r592\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f592\"><sup>[592]</sup></a> and who therefore says,\r\n“Why does He yet find fault? for who hath resisted His will?”\r\nwould merit the language of censure, which says, “Nay but,\r\nO man, who art thou that repliest against God?” Now to\r\nthose who introduce different natures, and who make use of\r\nthe declaration of the apostle [to support their view], the\r\nfollowing must be our answer. If they maintain<a id=\"r593\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f593\"><sup>[593]</sup></a> that those\r\nwho perish and those who are saved are formed of one lump,\r\nand that the Creator of those who are saved is the Creator\r\nalso of them who are lost, and if He is good who creates not\r\nonly spiritual but also earthy [natures] (for this follows from\r\ntheir view), it is nevertheless possible that he who, in consequence\r\nof certain former acts of righteousness,<a id=\"r594\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f594\"><sup>[594]</sup></a> had now been\r\nmade a vessel of honour, but who had not [afterwards] acted\r\nin a similar manner, nor done things befitting a vessel of\r\nhonour, was converted in another world into a vessel of dishonour;\r\nas, on the other hand, it is possible that he who,\r\nowing to causes more ancient than the present life, was here\r\na vessel of dishonour, may after reformation become in the\r\nnew creation “a vessel of honour, sanctified and meet for the\r\nMaster’s use, prepared unto every good work.” And perhaps\r\nthose who are now Israelites, not having lived worthily of\r\ntheir descent, will be deprived of their rank, being changed,\r\nas it were, from vessels of honour into those of dishonour;\r\nand many of the present Egyptians and Idumeans who came\r\nnear to Israel, when they shall have borne fruit to a larger\r\nextent, shall enter into the church of the Lord, being no\r\nlonger accounted Egyptians and Idumeans, but becoming\r\nIsraelites: so that, according to this view, it is owing to their\r\n[varying] purposes that some advance from a worse to a better\r\ncondition, and others fall from better to worse; while others,\r\nagain, are preserved in a virtuous course, or ascend from good\r\nto better; and others, on the contrary, remain in a course of\r\nevil, or from bad become worse, as their wickedness flows on.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-240"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b68e218d94f116cab38e49238f2399b8e2dc163e77baa2df0bb35a6f6bc57721","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f590","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. 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