Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">31. Let no one, however, suppose that by this we affirm\r\nthat some portion of the divinity of the Son of God was in\r\nChrist, and that the remaining portion was elsewhere or\r\neverywhere, which may be the opinion of those who are ignorant\r\nof the nature of an incorporeal and invisible essence.\r\nFor it is impossible to speak of the parts of an incorporeal\r\nbeing, or to make any division of them; but He is in all\r\nthings, and through all things, and above all things, in the\r\nmanner in which we have spoken above, <i>i.e.</i> in the manner\r\nin which He is understood to be either “wisdom,” or the\r\n“word,” or the “life,” or the “truth,” by which method\r\nof understanding all confinement of a local kind is undoubtedly\r\nexcluded. The Son of God, then, desiring for\r\nthe salvation of the human race to appear unto men, and\r\nto sojourn among them, assumed not only a human body, as\r\nsome suppose, but also a soul resembling our souls indeed in\r\nnature, but in will and power<a id=\"r1046\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1046\"><sup>[1046]</sup></a> resembling Himself, and such\r\nas might unfailingly accomplish all the desires and arrangements\r\nof the “word” and “wisdom.” Now, that He had a\r\nsoul,<a id=\"r1047\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1047\"><sup>[1047]</sup></a> is most clearly shown by the Saviour in the Gospels,\r\nwhen He said, “No man taketh my life from me, but I lay\r\nit down of myself. I have power to lay down my life, and\r\nI have power to take it again.”<a id=\"r1048\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1048\"><sup>[1048]</sup></a> And again, “My soul is\r\nsorrowful even unto death.”<a id=\"r1049\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1049\"><sup>[1049]</sup></a> And again, “Now is my soul\r\ntroubled.”<a id=\"r1050\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1050\"><sup>[1050]</sup></a> For the “Word” of God is not to be understood\r\nto be a “sorrowful and troubled” soul, because with\r\nthe authority of divinity He says, “I have power to lay\r\ndown my life.” Nor yet do we assert that the Son of God\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_347\">347</span>was in that soul as He was in the soul of Paul or Peter and\r\nthe other saints, in whom Christ is believed to speak as He\r\ndoes in Paul. But regarding all these we are to hold, as\r\nScripture declares, “No one is clean from filthiness, not even\r\nif his life lasted but a single day.”<a id=\"r1051\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1051\"><sup>[1051]</sup></a> But this soul which\r\nwas in Jesus, before it knew the evil, selected the good; and\r\nbecause He loved righteousness, and hated iniquity, therefore\r\nGod “anointed Him with the oil of gladness above His\r\nfellows.”<a id=\"r1052\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1052\"><sup>[1052]</sup></a> He is anointed, then, with the oil of gladness\r\nwhen He is united to the “word” of God in a stainless\r\nunion, and by this means alone of all souls was incapable\r\nof sin, because it was capable of [receiving] well and fully\r\nthe Son of God; and therefore also it is one with Him, and\r\nis named by His titles, and is called Jesus Christ, by whom\r\nall things are said to be made. Of which soul, seeing it had\r\nreceived into itself the whole wisdom of God, and the truth,\r\nand the life, I think that the apostle also said this: “Our\r\nlife is hidden with Christ in God; but when Christ, who is\r\nour life, shall appear, then shall we also appear with Him\r\nin glory.”<a id=\"r1053\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1053\"><sup>[1053]</sup></a> For what other Christ can be here understood,\r\nwho is said to be hidden in God, and who is afterwards to\r\nappear, except Him who is related to have been anointed\r\nwith the oil of gladness, <i>i.e.</i> to have been filled with God\r\nessentially,<a id=\"r1054\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1054\"><sup>[1054]</sup></a> in whom He is now said to be hidden? For on\r\nthis account is Christ proposed as an example to all believers,\r\nbecause as He always, even before He knew evil at all, selected\r\nthe good, and loved righteousness, and hated iniquity,\r\nand therefore God anointed Him with the oil of gladness; so\r\nalso ought each one, after a lapse or sin, to cleanse himself\r\nfrom his stains, making Him his example, and, taking Him as\r\nthe guide of his journey, enter upon the steep way of virtue,\r\nthat so perchance by this means, as far as possible we may,\r\nby imitating Him, be made partakers of the divine nature,\r\naccording to the words of Scripture: “He that saith that he\r\nbelieveth in Christ, ought so to walk, as He also walked.”<a id=\"r1055\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1055\"><sup>[1055]</sup></a></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-348"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"14a57c6645bb6aa3934d2ae3ec50616e53c18322441e601deef4d272dabc80ab","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1047","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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