Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And therefore there was no need that there should everywhere\r\nexist many bodies, and many spirits like Jesus, in order\r\nthat the whole world of men might be enlightened by the Word\r\nof God. For the one Word was enough, having arisen as the\r\n“Sun of righteousness,” to send forth from Judea His coming\r\nrays into the soul of all who were willing to receive Him. But\r\nif any one desires to see many bodies filled with a divine Spirit,\r\nsimilar to the one Christ, ministering to the salvation of men\r\neverywhere, let him take note of those who teach the gospel of\r\nJesus in all lands in soundness of doctrine and uprightness of\r\nlife, and who are themselves termed “christs” by the Holy\r\nScriptures, in the passage, “Touch not mine anointed,<a id=\"r1415\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1415\"><sup>[1415]</sup></a> and\r\ndo not my prophets any harm.”<a id=\"r1416\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1416\"><sup>[1416]</sup></a> For as we have heard that\r\nAntichrist cometh, and yet have learned that there are many\r\nantichrists in the world, in the same way, knowing that Christ\r\nhas come, we see that, owing to Him, there are many christs\r\nin the world, who, like Him, have loved righteousness and hated\r\niniquity, and therefore God, the God of Christ, anointed them\r\nalso with the “oil of gladness.” But inasmuch as He loved\r\nrighteousness and hated iniquity above those who were His\r\npartners,<a id=\"r1417\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1417\"><sup>[1417]</sup></a> He also obtained the first-fruits of His anointing,\r\nand, if we must so term it, the entire unction of the oil of gladness;\r\nwhile they who were His partners shared also in His\r\nunction, in proportion to their individual capacity. Therefore,\r\nsince Christ is the head of the church, so that Christ and the\r\nchurch form one body, the ointment descended from the head to\r\nthe beard of Aaron,—the symbols of the perfect man,—and this\r\nointment in its descent reached to the very skirt of his garment.\r\nThis is my answer to the irreverent language of Celsus when\r\nhe says, “He ought to have breathed [His Spirit] alike into\r\nmany bodies, and have sent it forth into all the world.” The\r\ncomic poet, indeed, to cause laughter, has represented Jupiter\r\nasleep and awaking from slumber, and despatching Mercury\r\nto the Greeks; but the Word, knowing that the nature of God\r\nis unaffected by sleep, may teach us that God administers in\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_423\">423</span>due season, and as right reason demands, the affairs of the\r\nworld. It is not, however, a matter of surprise that, owing to\r\nthe greatness and incomprehensibility<a id=\"r1418\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1418\"><sup>[1418]</sup></a> of the divine judgments,\r\nignorant persons should make mistakes, and Celsus among them.\r\nThere is therefore nothing ridiculous in the Son of God having\r\nbeen sent to the Jews, amongst whom the prophets had appeared,\r\nin order that, making a commencement among them in\r\na bodily shape, He might arise with might and power upon a\r\nworld of souls, which no longer desired to remain deserted\r\nby God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-474"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"024165f7c24d1476e10f92d21cfc6b70b28b930e58fd158fb4b0caaab1bb2c11","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-f1418","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":"f1418","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1418\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1418\">1418</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">δυσδιηγήτους τὰς κρίσεις.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1418","text_sha256":"21dcfbc4f15c7c271c86f5d37b4e8b3de1f509607e8fb61b324509da7d06422e","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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