Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And by this means let those who have the capacity of comprehending\r\ntruths so profound, learn that he to whom were\r\nallotted those who had not formerly sinned is far more powerful\r\nthan the others, since he has been able to make a selection\r\nof individuals from the portion of the whole,<a id=\"r953\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f953\"><sup>[953]</sup></a> and to separate\r\nthem from those who received them for the purpose of punishment,\r\nand to bring them under the influence of laws, and of a\r\nmode of life which helps to produce an oblivion of their former\r\ntransgressions. But, as we have previously observed, these\r\nremarks are to be understood as being made by us with a concealed\r\nmeaning, by way of pointing out the mistakes of those\r\nwho asserted that “the various quarters of the earth were from\r\nthe beginning distributed among different superintending spirits,\r\nand being allotted among certain governing powers, were administered\r\nin this way;” from which statement Celsus took\r\noccasion to make the remarks referred to. But since those who\r\nwandered away from the east were delivered over, on account\r\nof their sins, to “a reprobate mind,” and to “vile affections,”\r\nand to “uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts,”<a id=\"r954\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f954\"><sup>[954]</sup></a>\r\nin order that, being sated with sin, they might hate it, we shall\r\nrefuse our assent to the assertion of Celsus, that “because of\r\nthe superintending spirits distributed among the different parts\r\nof the earth, what is done among each nation is rightly done;”\r\nfor our desire is to do what is <i>not</i> agreeable to these spirits.<a id=\"r955\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f955\"><sup>[955]</sup></a>\r\nFor we see that it is a religious act to do away with the customs\r\noriginally established in the various places by means of\r\nlaws of a better and more divine character, which were enacted\r\nby Jesus, as one possessed of the greatest power, who has rescued\r\nus “from the present evil world,” and “from the princes\r\nof the world that come to nought;” and that it is a mark of\r\nirreligion not to throw ourselves at the feet of Him who has\r\nmanifested Himself to be holier and more powerful than all\r\nother rulers, and to whom God said, as the prophets many\r\ngenerations before predicted: “Ask of me, and I shall give Thee\r\nthe heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_302\">302</span>the earth for Thy possession.”<a id=\"r956\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f956\"><sup>[956]</sup></a> For He, too, has become the\r\n“expectation” of us who from among the heathen have believed\r\nupon Him, and upon His Father, who is God over all things.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXXII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-359"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"59569f552d2525111c0207476f39d792859c543ea93594b7d09a0f3b500fea5c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f953","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 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f953","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f953\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r953\">953</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἀπὸ τῆς πάντων μερίδος.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f953","text_sha256":"0418fc1d61d28e26bdd7c08309e0971f94d5586030485ca7a5aa95e977fbcd96","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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