Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">24. This descent of the holy fathers into Egypt will\r\nappear as granted to this world by the providence of God\r\nfor the illumination of others, and for the instruction of\r\nthe human race, that so by this means the souls of others\r\nmight be assisted in the work of enlightenment. For to\r\nthem was first granted the privilege of converse with God,\r\nbecause theirs is the only race which is said to see God; this\r\nbeing the meaning, by interpretation, of the word “Israel.”<a id=\"r1015\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1015\"><sup>[1015]</sup></a>\r\nAnd now it follows that, agreeably to this view, ought the\r\nstatement to be accepted and explained that Egypt was\r\nscourged with ten plagues, to allow the people of God to\r\ndepart, or the account of what was done with the people in\r\nthe wilderness, or of the building of the tabernacle by means\r\nof contributions from all the people, or of the wearing of the\r\npriestly robes, or of the vessels of the public service, because,\r\nas it is written, they truly contain within them the “shadow\r\nand form of heavenly things.” For Paul openly says of\r\nthem, that “they serve unto the example and shadow of\r\nheavenly things.”<a id=\"r1016\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1016\"><sup>[1016]</sup></a> There are, moreover, contained in this\r\nsame law the precepts and institutions, according to which\r\nmen are to live in the holy land. Threatenings also are\r\nheld out as impending over those who shall transgress the\r\nlaw; different kinds of purifications are moreover prescribed\r\nfor those who required purification, as being persons who\r\nwere liable to frequent pollution, that by means of these\r\nthey may arrive at last at that one purification after which\r\nno further pollution is permitted. The very people are numbered,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_337\">337</span>though not all; for the souls of children are not yet\r\nold enough to be numbered according to the divine command:\r\nnor are those souls who cannot become the head of another,\r\nbut are themselves subordinated to others as to a head, who\r\nare called “women,” who certainly are not included in that\r\nnumbering which is enjoined by God; but they alone are\r\nnumbered who are called “men,” by which it might be\r\nshown that the women could not be counted separately,<a id=\"r1017\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1017\"><sup>[1017]</sup></a>\r\nbut were included in those called men. Those, however,\r\nespecially belong to the sacred number, who are prepared to\r\ngo forth to the battles of the Israelites, and are able to fight\r\nagainst those public and private enemies<a id=\"r1018\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1018\"><sup>[1018]</sup></a> whom the Father\r\nsubjects to the Son, who sits on His right hand that He may\r\ndestroy all principality and power, and by means of these\r\nbands of His soldiery, who, being engaged in a warfare\r\nfor God, do not entangle themselves in secular business, He\r\nmay overturn the kingdom of His adversary; by whom the\r\nshields of faith are borne, and the weapons of wisdom brandished;\r\namong whom also the helmet of hope and salvation\r\ngleams forth, and the breastplate of brightness fortifies the\r\nbreast that is filled with God. Such soldiers appear to me\r\nto be indicated, and to be prepared for wars of this kind,\r\nin those persons who in the sacred books are ordered by\r\nGod’s command to be numbered. But of these, by far the\r\nmore perfect and distinguished are shown to be those of\r\nwhom the very hairs of the head are said to be numbered.\r\nSuch, indeed, as were punished for their sins, whose bodies\r\nfell in the wilderness, appear to possess a resemblance to\r\nthose who had made indeed no little progress, but who\r\ncould not at all, for various reasons, attain to the end of\r\nperfection; because they are reported either to have murmured,\r\nor to have worshipped idols, or to have committed\r\nfornication, or to have done some evil work which the mind\r\nought not even to conceive. I do not consider the following\r\neven to be without some mystical meaning,<a id=\"r1019\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1019\"><sup>[1019]</sup></a> viz. that certain\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_338\">338</span>[of the Israelites], possessing many flocks and animals, take\r\npossession by anticipation of a country adapted for pasture\r\nand the feeding of cattle, which was the very first that the\r\nright hand of the Hebrews had secured in war.<a id=\"r1020\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1020\"><sup>[1020]</sup></a> For,\r\nmaking a request of Moses to receive this region, they are\r\ndivided off by the waters of the Jordan, and set apart from\r\nany possession in the holy land. And this Jordan, according\r\nto the form of heavenly things, may appear to water\r\nand irrigate thirsty souls, and the senses that are adjacent\r\nto it.<a id=\"r1021\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1021\"><sup>[1021]</sup></a> In connection with which, even this statement does\r\nnot appear superfluous, that Moses indeed hears from God\r\nwhat is described in the book of Leviticus, while in Deuteronomy\r\nit is the people that are the auditors of Moses, and\r\nwho learn from him what they could not hear from God.\r\nFor as Deuteronomy is called, as it were, the second law,\r\nwhich to some will appear to convey this signification, that\r\nwhen the first law which was given through Moses had\r\ncome to an end, so a second legislation seems to have been\r\nenacted, which was specially transmitted by Moses to his\r\nsuccessor Joshua, who is certainly believed to embody a\r\ntype<a id=\"r1022\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1022\"><sup>[1022]</sup></a> of our Saviour, by whose second law—that is, the\r\nprecepts of the Gospel—all things are brought to perfection.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-338"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"94d1307a754d6fe901491bb7f29553c29877a1b57d808430061757130100d4fc","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1022","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. 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