Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, in the next place, as one who has heard the subject\r\nof humility greatly talked about,<a id=\"r1111\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1111\"><sup>[1111]</sup></a> but who has not been at the\r\npains to understand it,<a id=\"r1112\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1112\"><sup>[1112]</sup></a> would wish to speak evil of that humility\r\nwhich is practised among us, and imagines that it is borrowed\r\nfrom some words of Plato imperfectly understood, where he\r\nexpresses himself in the <i>Laws</i> as follows: “Now God, according\r\nto the ancient account, having in Himself both the beginning\r\nand end and middle of all existing things, proceeds according to\r\nnature, and marches straight on.<a id=\"r1113\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1113\"><sup>[1113]</sup></a> He is constantly followed by\r\njustice, which is the avenger of all breaches of the divine law:\r\nhe who is about to become happy follows her closely in humility,\r\nand becomingly adorned.”<a id=\"r1114\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1114\"><sup>[1114]</sup></a> He did not observe, however, that\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_353\">353</span>in writers much older than Plato the following words occur in\r\na prayer: “Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty,\r\nneither do I walk in great matters, nor in things too wonderful\r\nfor me; if I had not been humble,”<a id=\"r1115\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1115\"><sup>[1115]</sup></a> etc. Now these words\r\nshow that he who is of humble mind does not by any means\r\nhumble himself in an unseemly or inauspicious manner, falling\r\ndown upon his knees, or casting himself headlong on the ground,\r\nputting on the dress of the miserable, or sprinkling himself with\r\ndust. But he who is of humble mind in the sense of the\r\nprophet, while “walking in great and wonderful things,” which\r\nare above his capacity—viz. those doctrines that are truly great,\r\nand those thoughts that are wonderful—“humbles himself\r\nunder the mighty hand of God.” If there are some, however,\r\nwho through their stupidity<a id=\"r1116\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1116\"><sup>[1116]</sup></a> have not clearly understood the\r\ndoctrine of humiliation, and act as they do, it is not our doctrine\r\nwhich is to be blamed; but we must extend our forgiveness to\r\nthe stupidity<a id=\"r1117\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1117\"><sup>[1117]</sup></a> of those who aim at higher things, and owing to\r\ntheir fatuity of mind<a id=\"r1118\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1118\"><sup>[1118]</sup></a> fail to attain them. He who is “humble\r\nand becomingly adorned,” is so in a greater degree than Plato’s\r\n“humble and becomingly adorned” individual: for he is becomingly\r\nadorned, on the one hand, because “he walks in things\r\ngreat and wonderful,” which are beyond his capacity; and\r\nhumble, on the other hand, because, while being in the midst of\r\nsuch, he yet voluntarily humbles himself, not under any one at\r\nrandom, but under “the mighty hand of God,” through Jesus\r\nChrist, the teacher of such instruction, “who did not deem\r\nequality with God a thing to be eagerly clung to, but made\r\nHimself of no reputation, and took on Him the form of a\r\nservant, and being found in fashion as a man, humbled Himself,\r\nand became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”<a id=\"r1119\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1119\"><sup>[1119]</sup></a>\r\nAnd so great is this doctrine of humiliation, that it has no\r\nordinary individual as its teacher; but our great Saviour Himself\r\nsays: “Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of heart,\r\nand ye shall find rest for your souls.”<a id=\"r1120\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1120\"><sup>[1120]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-408"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2c420aca714e74fbdd5d9e74b0912315713ef8b153152e34b9035e43c25405d5","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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