Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">5. Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion\r\nwhich might suggest that we were to think of God as in any\r\ndegree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict\r\ntruth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being\r\nmeasured.<a id=\"r30\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f30\"><sup>[30]</sup></a> For whatever be the knowledge which we are\r\nable to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we\r\nmust of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far\r\nbetter than what we perceive Him to be. For, as if we were\r\nto see any one unable to bear a spark of light, or the flame\r\nof a very small lamp, and were desirous to acquaint such\r\na one, whose vision could not admit a greater degree of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_12\">12</span>light than what we have stated, with the brightness and\r\nsplendour of the sun, would it not be necessary to tell him\r\nthat the splendour of the sun was unspeakably and incalculably\r\nbetter and more glorious than all this light which\r\nhe saw? So our understanding, when shut in by the fetters\r\nof flesh and blood, and rendered, on account of its participation\r\nin such material substances, duller and more obtuse,\r\nalthough, in comparison with our bodily nature, it is esteemed\r\nto be far superior, yet, in its efforts to examine and behold\r\nincorporeal things, scarcely holds the place of a spark or\r\nlamp. But among all intelligent, that is, incorporeal beings,\r\nwhat is so superior to all others—so unspeakably and incalculably\r\nsuperior—as God, whose nature cannot be grasped\r\nor seen by the power of any human understanding, even the\r\npurest and brightest?</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER I. ON GOD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-70"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0a89944810547f990d21026e2701890ed6ef87f8cd71970bd85ea198be7a294e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f30","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f30","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f30\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r30\">30</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">“Inæstimabilem.”</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f30","text_sha256":"280fb190d235d8594abbfbc53838d4d37c579dc9062ca7987086e8dd7d6631bc","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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