Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And now, after these arguments, and others of a similar kind,\r\nhow can Celsus escape appearing in a ridiculous light, when he\r\nimagines that there never has been in the past, nor will be in\r\nthe future, a greater or less number of evils? For although\r\nthe nature of all things is one and the same, it does not at all\r\nfollow that the production of evils is a constant quantity.<a id=\"r738\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f738\"><sup>[738]</sup></a>\r\nFor although the nature of a certain individual is one and the\r\nsame, yet his mind, and his reason, and his actions, are not\r\nalways alike:<a id=\"r739\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f739\"><sup>[739]</sup></a> there being a time when he had not yet attained\r\nto reason; and another, when, with the possession of reason, he\r\nhad become stained with wickedness, and when this increased\r\nto a greater or less degree; and again, a time when he devoted\r\nhimself to virtue, and made greater or less progress therein,\r\nattaining sometimes the very summit of perfection, through\r\nlonger or shorter periods of contemplation.<a id=\"r740\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f740\"><sup>[740]</sup></a> In like manner, we\r\nmay make the same assertion in a higher degree of the nature\r\nof the universe,<a id=\"r741\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f741\"><sup>[741]</sup></a> that although it is one and the same in kind,\r\nyet neither do exactly the same things, nor yet things that are\r\nsimilar, occur in it; for we neither have invariably productive\r\nnor unproductive seasons, nor yet periods of continuous rain or\r\nof drought. And so in the same way, with regard to virtuous\r\nsouls, there are neither appointed periods of fertility nor of\r\nbarrenness; and the same is the case with the greater or less\r\nspread of evil. And those who desire to investigate all things\r\nto the best of their ability, must keep in view this estimate of\r\nevils, that their amount is not always the same, owing to the\r\nworking of a Providence which either preserves earthly things,\r\nor purges them by means of floods and conflagrations; and\r\neffects this, perhaps, not merely with reference to things on\r\nearth, but also to the whole universe of things<a id=\"r742\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f742\"><sup>[742]</sup></a> which stands in\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_231\">231</span>need of purification, when the wickedness that is in it has\r\nbecome great.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-285"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"efee8f12492c8574c5c21aedc9f15f6f21d476bb5b10c1eae55765e090dfd4f7","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-f742","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":"f742","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f742\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r742\">742</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὰ ἐν ὁλῳ τῷ κόσμῳ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f742","text_sha256":"701e46afbccbe864661b368ef3a133f6dfd8d122dbe942b39a48b92cb1d3e039","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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