Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">21. Nay, that very declaration, that from the same lump\r\na vessel is formed both to honour and to dishonour, will not\r\npush us hard; for we assert that the nature of all rational\r\nsouls is the same, as one lump of clay is described as\r\nbeing under the treatment of the potter. Seeing, then, the\r\nnature of rational creatures is one, God, according to the\r\nprevious grounds of merit,<a id=\"r585\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f585\"><sup>[585]</sup></a> created and formed out of it, as\r\nthe potter out of the one lump, some persons to honour and\r\nothers to dishonour. Now, as regards the language of the\r\napostle, which he utters as if in a tone of censure, “Nay but,\r\nO man, who art thou that repliest against God?” he means,\r\nI think, to point out that such a censure does not refer to\r\nany believer who lives rightly and justly, and who has confidence\r\nin God, <i>i.e.</i> to such an one as Moses was, of whom\r\nScripture says that “Moses spake, and God answered him by\r\na voice;”<a id=\"r586\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f586\"><sup>[586]</sup></a> and as God answered Moses, so also does every\r\nsaint answer God. But he who is an unbeliever, and loses\r\nconfidence in answering before God owing to the unworthiness\r\nof his life and conversation, and who, in relation to these\r\nmatters, does not seek to learn and make progress, but to\r\noppose and resist, and who, to speak more plainly, is such an\r\none as to be able to say those words which the apostle indicates,\r\nwhen he says, “Why, then, does He yet find fault? for who\r\nwill resist His will?”—to such an one may the censure of\r\nthe apostle rightly be directed, “Nay but, O man, who art\r\nthou that repliest against God?” This censure accordingly\r\napplies not to believers and saints, but to unbelievers and\r\nwicked men.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-238"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e3941bdb99dcdd9f3a41925691ed08ca06af23c43a094fa1392a880499fa1b8b","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f585","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":"f585","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f585\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r585\">585</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Secundum præcedentes meritorum causas.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f585","text_sha256":"6f787b72f4cb657f74bbb9e5b61dca61687b737eab4f70a143fea6b448117078","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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