Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">5. After these points, also, the apostolic teaching is that\r\nthe soul, having a substance<a id=\"r11\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f11\"><sup>[11]</sup></a> and life of its own, shall, after\r\nits departure from the world, be rewarded according to its\r\ndeserts, being destined to obtain either an inheritance of\r\neternal life and blessedness, if its actions shall have procured\r\nthis for it, or to be delivered up to eternal fire and punishments,\r\nif the guilt of its crimes shall have brought it down to\r\nthis: and also, that there is to be a time of resurrection from\r\nthe dead, when this body, which now “is sown in corruption,\r\nshall rise in incorruption,” and that which “is sown in dishonour\r\nwill rise in glory.”<a id=\"r12\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f12\"><sup>[12]</sup></a> This also is clearly defined in\r\nthe teaching of the church, that every rational soul is possessed\r\nof free-will and volition; that it has a struggle to\r\nmaintain with the devil and his angels, and opposing influences,<a id=\"r13\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f13\"><sup>[13]</sup></a>\r\nbecause they strive to burden it with sins; but if\r\nwe live rightly and wisely, we should endeavour to shake\r\nourselves free of a burden of that kind. From which it\r\nfollows, also, that we understand ourselves not to be subject\r\nto necessity, so as to be compelled by all means, even against\r\nour will, to do either good or evil. For if we are our own\r\nmasters, some influences perhaps may impel us to sin, and\r\nothers help us to salvation; we are not forced, however, by\r\nany necessity either to act rightly or wrongly, which those\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_5\">5</span>persons think is the case who say that the courses and movements\r\nof the stars are the cause of human actions, not only\r\nof those which take place beyond the influence of the freedom\r\nof the will, but also of those which are placed within our own\r\npower. But with respect to the soul, whether it is derived\r\nfrom the seed by a process of traducianism, so that the reason\r\nor substance of it may be considered as placed in the seminal\r\nparticles of the body themselves, or whether it has any other\r\nbeginning; and this beginning itself, whether it be by birth\r\nor not, or whether bestowed upon the body from without or\r\nno, is not distinguished with sufficient clearness in the teaching\r\nof the church.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","PREFACE."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-58"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4033f79aabb7827ae3b63680feae2d6b40295925a166ae3cd6d2bc42fedc1dce","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f13","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":"f13","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f13\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r13\">13</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Virtutes</span>.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f13","text_sha256":"2158227ee674be47b98e0fc26bfbacc2b91d82ea6e5a42b8ad40199877fffb4b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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