Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">7. When, then, the saints shall have reached the celestial\r\nabodes, they will clearly see the nature of the stars one by\r\none, and will understand whether they are endued with life,\r\nor their condition, whatever it is. And they will comprehend\r\nalso the other reasons for the works of God, which He Himself\r\nwill reveal to them. For He will show to them, as to\r\nchildren, the causes of things and the power of His creation,<a id=\"r346\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f346\"><sup>[346]</sup></a>\r\nand will explain why that star was placed in that particular\r\nquarter of the sky, and why it was separated from another\r\nby so great an intervening space; what, <i>e.g.</i>, would have been\r\nthe consequence if it had been nearer or more remote; or if\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_153\">153</span>that star had been larger than this, how the totality of things\r\nwould not have remained the same, but all would have been\r\ntransformed into a different condition of being. And so,\r\nwhen they have finished all those matters which are connected\r\nwith the stars, and with the heavenly revolutions, they will\r\ncome to those which are not seen, or to those whose names\r\nonly we have heard, and to things which are invisible, which\r\nthe Apostle Paul has informed us are numerous, although\r\nwhat they are, or what difference may exist among them, we\r\ncannot even conjecture by our feeble intellect. And thus\r\nthe rational nature, growing by each individual step, not as it\r\ngrew in this life in flesh, and body, and soul, but enlarged in\r\nunderstanding and in power of perception, is raised as a mind\r\nalready perfect to perfect knowledge, no longer at all impeded\r\nby those carnal senses, but increased in intellectual growth;\r\nand ever gazing purely, and, so to speak, face to face, on the\r\ncauses of things, it attains perfection, firstly, viz. that by which\r\nit ascends to [the truth],<a id=\"r347\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f347\"><sup>[347]</sup></a> and secondly, that by which it abides\r\nin it, having problems and the understanding of things, and\r\nthe causes of events, as the food on which it may feast. For\r\nas in this life our bodies grow physically to what they are,\r\nthrough a sufficiency of food in early life supplying the\r\nmeans of increase, but after the due height has been attained\r\nwe use food no longer to grow, but to live, and to be preserved\r\nin life by it; so also I think that the mind, when it\r\nhas attained perfection, eats and avails itself of suitable and\r\nappropriate food in such a degree, that nothing ought to be\r\neither deficient or superfluous. And in all things this food\r\nis to be understood as the contemplation and understanding\r\nof God, which is of a measure appropriate and suitable to this\r\nnature, which was made and created; and this measure it\r\nis proper should be observed by every one of those who are\r\nbeginning to see God, <i>i.e.</i> to understand Him through purity\r\nof heart.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. ON COUNTER PROMISES."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-194"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f6ea42a104745de4c5cbb33add362b4156be83eb2af04189345c56cc14731756","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f347","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":"f347","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f347\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r347\">347</a>.  </span>In id: To that state of the soul in which it gazes purely on the\r\ncauses of things.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f347","text_sha256":"f90ce2f19e38533f834fb48d8b1ebaea00b0f7071104d4d9cfd8ab7ed74d9dee","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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