Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Again, not understanding the meaning of the words, “And\r\nGod ended on the sixth day His works which He had made,\r\nand ceased<a id=\"r1339\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1339\"><sup>[1339]</sup></a> on the seventh day from all His works which He\r\nhad made: and God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it,\r\nbecause on it He had ceased<a id=\"r1340\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1340\"><sup>[1340]</sup></a> from all His works which He\r\nhad begun to make;”<a id=\"r1341\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1341\"><sup>[1341]</sup></a> and imagining the expression, “He\r\n<i>ceased</i> on the seventh day,” to be the same as this, “He <i>rested</i><a id=\"r1342\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1342\"><sup>[1342]</sup></a>\r\non the seventh day,” he makes the remark: “After this,\r\nindeed, he is weary, like a very bad workman, who stands in\r\nneed of rest to refresh himself!” For he knows nothing of\r\nthe day of the Sabbath and rest of God, which follows the\r\ncompletion of the world’s creation, and which lasts during the\r\nduration of the world, and in which all those will keep festival\r\nwith God who have done all <i>their</i> works in <i>their</i> six days, and\r\nwho, because they have omitted none of their duties,<a id=\"r1343\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1343\"><sup>[1343]</sup></a> will\r\nascend to the contemplation [of celestial things], and to the\r\nassembly of righteous and blessed beings. In the next place,\r\nas if either the Scriptures made such a statement, or as if we\r\nourselves so spoke of God as having rested from fatigue, he\r\ncontinues: “It is not in keeping with the fitness of things<a id=\"r1344\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1344\"><sup>[1344]</sup></a>\r\nthat the first God should feel fatigue, or work with His hands,<a id=\"r1345\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1345\"><sup>[1345]</sup></a>\r\nor give forth commands.” Celsus says, that “it is not in keeping\r\nwith the fitness of things that the first God should feel\r\nfatigue.” Now we would say that neither does God the Word\r\nfeel fatigue, nor any of those beings who belong to a better\r\nand diviner order of things, because the sensation of fatigue is\r\npeculiar to those who are in the body. You can examine\r\nwhether this is true of those who possess a body of any kind, or\r\nof those who have an <i>earthly</i> body, or one a little better than\r\nthis. But “neither is it consistent with the fitness of things that\r\nthe first God should work with His own hands.” If you understand\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_404\">404</span>the words “work with His own hands” <i>literally</i>, then\r\nneither are they applicable to the <i>second</i> God, nor to any other\r\nbeing partaking of divinity. But suppose that they are spoken\r\nin an improper and figurative sense, so that we may translate the\r\nfollowing expressions, “And the firmament showeth forth His\r\nhandywork,”<a id=\"r1346\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1346\"><sup>[1346]</sup></a> and “the heavens are the work of Thy hands,”<a id=\"r1347\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1347\"><sup>[1347]</sup></a>\r\nand any other similar phrases, in a figurative manner, so far as\r\nrespects the “hands” and “limbs” of Deity, where is the absurdity\r\nin the words, “God thus working with His own hands?”\r\nAnd as there is no absurdity in God thus working, so neither is\r\nthere in His issuing “commands;” so that what is done at His\r\nbidding should be beautiful and praiseworthy, because it was\r\nGod who commanded it to be performed.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-456"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0ac354dc2153be64bd545f9f3af1e0383e5197908267a659e53f2bb2e67f986d","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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