Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">20. Since, therefore, as will be clear to those who read, the\r\nconnection taken literally is impossible, while the sense preferred<a id=\"r983\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f983\"><sup>[983]</sup></a>\r\nis not impossible, but even the true one, it must be\r\nour object to grasp the whole meaning, which connects the\r\naccount of what is literally impossible in an intelligible manner\r\nwith what is not only not impossible, but also historically true,\r\nand which is allegorically understood, in respect of its not\r\nhaving literally occurred.<a id=\"r984\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f984\"><sup>[984]</sup></a> For, with respect to holy Scripture,\r\nour opinion is that the whole of it has a “spiritual,” but not\r\nthe whole a “bodily” meaning, because the bodily meaning\r\nis in many places proved to be impossible. And therefore\r\ngreat attention must be bestowed by the cautious reader on\r\nthe divine books, as being divine writings; the manner of\r\nunderstanding which appears to us to be as follows:—The\r\nScriptures relate that God chose a certain nation upon the\r\nearth, which they call by several names. For the whole of\r\nthis nation is termed Israel, and also Jacob. And when it\r\nwas divided in the times of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the\r\nten tribes related as being subject to him were called Israel;\r\nand the remaining two, along with the tribe of Levi, being\r\nruled over by the descendants of David, were named Judah.\r\nAnd the whole of the territory which the people of this\r\nnation inhabited, being given them by God, receives the name\r\nof Judah, the metropolis of which is Jerusalem,—a metropolis,\r\nnamely, of numerous cities, the names of which lie scattered\r\nabout in many other passages [of Scripture], but are\r\nenumerated together in the book of Joshua the son of Nun.<a id=\"r985\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f985\"><sup>[985]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-329"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"38c36de27467ed6e5329cc8bfc063be076d63cf5c573876b1905e0d75dd5455c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f983","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":"f983","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f983\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r983\">983</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ὁ προηγούμενος.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f983","text_sha256":"6332ba7fa5a4d055d00995d08ace5565c3ed8fdd83144b278330cf2c810a7179","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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