Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">7. Having sketched, then, so far as we could understand,\r\nthese three opinions regarding the end of all things, and the\r\nsupreme blessedness, let each one of our readers determine for\r\nhimself, with care and diligence, whether any one of them\r\ncan be approved and adopted.<a id=\"r176\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f176\"><sup>[176]</sup></a> For it has been said that we\r\nmust suppose either that an incorporeal existence is possible,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_90\">90</span>after all things have become subject to Christ, and through\r\nChrist to God the Father, when God will be all and in all; or\r\nthat when, notwithstanding all things have been made subject\r\nto Christ, and through Christ to God (with whom they formed\r\nalso one spirit, in respect of spirits being rational natures),\r\nthen the bodily substance itself also being united to most pure\r\nand excellent spirits, and being changed into an ethereal\r\ncondition in proportion to the quality or merits of those who\r\nassume it (according to the apostle’s words, “We also shall\r\nbe changed”), will shine forth in splendour; or at least that\r\nwhen the fashion of those things which are seen passes away,\r\nand all corruption has been shaken off and cleansed away,\r\nand when the whole of the space occupied by this world, in\r\nwhich the spheres of the planets are said to be, has been left\r\nbehind and beneath,<a id=\"r177\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f177\"><sup>[177]</sup></a> then is reached the fixed abode of the\r\npious and the good situated above that sphere, which is called\r\nnon-wandering (<span lang=\"grc\">ἀπλανής</span>), as in a good land, in a land of the\r\nliving, which will be inherited by the meek and gentle; to\r\nwhich land belongs that heaven (which, with its more magnificent\r\nextent, surrounds and contains that land itself) which\r\nis called truly and chiefly heaven, in which heaven and earth,\r\nthe end and perfection of all things, may be safely and most\r\nconfidently placed,—where, viz., these, after their apprehension\r\nand their chastisement for the offences which they have\r\nundergone by way of purgation, may, after having fulfilled\r\nand discharged every obligation, deserve a habitation in that\r\nland; while those who have been obedient to the word of\r\nGod, and have henceforth by their obedience shown themselves\r\ncapable of wisdom, are said to deserve the kingdom\r\nof that heaven or heavens; and thus the prediction is more\r\nworthily fulfilled, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit\r\nthe earth;”<a id=\"r178\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f178\"><sup>[178]</sup></a> and, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they\r\nshall inherit the kingdom of heaven;”<a id=\"r179\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f179\"><sup>[179]</sup></a> and the declaration\r\nin the Psalm, “He shall exalt thee, and thou shalt inherit\r\nthe land.”<a id=\"r180\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f180\"><sup>[180]</sup></a> For it is called a descent to this earth, but an\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_91\">91</span>exaltation to that which is on high. In this way, therefore,\r\ndoes a sort of road seem to be opened up by the departure of\r\nthe saints from that earth to those heavens; so that they do\r\nnot so much appear to abide in that land, as to inhabit it with\r\nan intention, viz., to pass on to the inheritance of the kingdom\r\nof heaven, when they have reached that degree of perfection\r\nalso.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER III. 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