Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">If now any one demand of us clear and distinct declarations\r\non these points out of holy Scripture, we must answer\r\nthat it was the design of the Holy Spirit, in those portions\r\nwhich appear to relate the history of events, rather to cover\r\nand conceal the meaning: in those passages, <i>e.g.</i>, where they\r\nare said to go down into Egypt, or to be carried captive to\r\nBabylonia, or when in these very countries some are said to\r\nbe brought to excessive humiliation, and to be placed under\r\nbondage to their masters; while others, again, in these very\r\ncountries of their captivity, were held in honour and esteem,\r\nso as to occupy positions of rank and power, and were\r\nappointed to the government of provinces;—all which things,\r\nas we have said, are kept hidden and covered in the narratives\r\nof holy Scripture, because “the kingdom of heaven is\r\nlike a treasure hid in a field; which when a man findeth, he\r\nhideth it, and for joy thereof goeth away and selleth all that\r\nhe hath, and buyeth that field.”<a id=\"r1006\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1006\"><sup>[1006]</sup></a> By which similitude, consider\r\nwhether it be not pointed out that the very soil and\r\nsurface, so to speak, of Scripture—that is, the literal meaning—is\r\nthe field, filled with plants and flowers of all kinds;\r\nwhile that deeper and profounder “spiritual” meaning are\r\nthe very hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge which\r\nthe Holy Spirit by Isaiah calls the dark and invisible and\r\nhidden treasures, for the finding out of which the divine\r\nhelp is required: for God alone can burst the brazen gates\r\nby which they are enclosed and concealed, and break in\r\npieces the iron bolts and levers by which access is prevented\r\nto all those things which are written and concealed in Genesis\r\nrespecting the different kinds of souls, and of those seeds\r\nand generations which either have a close connection with\r\nIsrael<a id=\"r1007\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1007\"><sup>[1007]</sup></a> or are widely separated from his descendants; as well\r\nas what is that descent of seventy souls into Egypt, which\r\nseventy souls became in that land as the stars of heaven in\r\nmultitude. But as not all of them were the light of this\r\nworld—“for all who are of Israel are not Israel”<a id=\"r1008\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1008\"><sup>[1008]</sup></a>—they\r\ngrow from being seventy souls to be an important people,<a id=\"r1009\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1009\"><sup>[1009]</sup></a>\r\nand as the “sand by the sea-shore innumerable.”</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-335"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"00e83f1e3043864b9a283c39148602bd9b71f1130e3d069dd6a4951930d60097","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1007","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":"f1007","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1007\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1007\">1007</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Ad propinquitatem pertinent Israel.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1007","text_sha256":"df179991199a65c7cc6c9c79eb8080acd13de090fb97f297cb352abd26957a63","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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