Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He is not ashamed, moreover, to say, in addition to these\r\nstatements (that the unseemly character<a id=\"r795\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f795\"><sup>[795]</sup></a> of his opinions may\r\nbe manifest to those who will live after him): “Come now, if\r\none were to look down from heaven upon earth, in what respect\r\nwould <i>our</i> actions appear to differ from those of ants and\r\nbees?” Now does he who, according to his own supposition,\r\nlooks from heaven upon the proceedings of men and ants, look\r\nupon their bodies alone, and not rather have regard to the controlling\r\nreason which is called into action by reflection;<a id=\"r796\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f796\"><sup>[796]</sup></a>\r\nwhile, on the other hand, the guiding principle of the latter is\r\nirrational, and set in motion irrationally by impulse and fancy,\r\nin conjunction with a certain natural apparatus?<a id=\"r797\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f797\"><sup>[797]</sup></a> But it\r\nis absurd to suppose that he who looks from heaven upon\r\nearthly things would desire to look from such a distance upon\r\nthe <i>bodies</i> of men and ants, and would not rather consider the\r\nnature of the guiding principles, and the source of impulses,\r\nwhether that be rational or irrational. And if he once look\r\nupon the source of all impulses, it is manifest that he would\r\nbehold also the difference which exists, and the superiority of\r\nman, not only over ants, but even over elephants. For he who\r\nlooks from heaven will see among irrational creatures, however\r\nlarge their bodies, no other principle<a id=\"r798\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f798\"><sup>[798]</sup></a> than, so to speak, irrationality;<a id=\"r799\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f799\"><sup>[799]</sup></a>\r\nwhile amongst rational beings he will discover reason, the\r\ncommon possession of men, and of divine and heavenly beings,\r\nand perhaps of the supreme God Himself, on account of which\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_252\">252</span>man is said to have been created in the image of God, for the\r\nimage of the Supreme God is his reason.<a id=\"r800\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f800\"><sup>[800]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LXXXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-308"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7b530dad33ae11b8d7bf0bcac3fc653065f547deb27caf727f9d02aea740a1a7","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f796","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 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f796","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f796\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r796\">796</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὐ κατανοεῖ δὲ τὸ λογικὸν ἡγεμονικὸν καὶ λογισμῷ κινούμενον;</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f796","text_sha256":"d1b18227e61a8753cc9a97ade6b144c5326b969b26a27a88fdafba6779fb4bf6","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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