Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The sacred Scriptures teach us to think, in like manner, of\r\nthe Lord of lords. For they say in one place, “Give thanks to\r\nthe God of gods, for His mercy endureth for ever. Give\r\nthanks to the Lord of lords, for His mercy endureth for ever;”\r\nand in another, “God is King of kings, and Lord of lords.”\r\nFor Scripture distinguishes between those gods which are such\r\nonly in name and those which are truly gods, whether they are\r\ncalled by that name or not; and the same is true in regard to\r\nthe use of the word “lords.” To this effect Paul says, “For\r\nthough there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in\r\nearth, as there are gods many, and lords many.”<a id=\"r1571\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1571\"><sup>[1571]</sup></a> But as the\r\nGod of gods calls whom He pleases through Jesus to his inheritance,\r\n“from the east and from the west,” and the Christ\r\nof God thus shows His superiority to all rulers by entering into\r\ntheir several provinces, and summoning men out of them to\r\nbe subject to Himself, Paul therefore, with this in view, goes on\r\nto say, “But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom\r\nare all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all\r\nthings, and we by Him;” adding, as if with a deep sense of the\r\nmarvellous and mysterious nature of the doctrine, “Howbeit,\r\nthere is not in every man that knowledge.” When he says,\r\n“To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all\r\nthings; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things,”\r\nby “us” he means himself and all those who have risen up\r\nto the supreme God of gods and to the supreme Lord of\r\nlords. Now he has risen to the supreme God who gives Him\r\nan entire and undivided worship through His Son—the word\r\nand wisdom of God made manifest in Jesus. For it is the Son\r\nalone who leads to God those who are striving, by the purity\r\nof their thoughts, words, and deeds, to come near to God the\r\nCreator of the universe. I think, therefore, that the prince of\r\nthis world, who “transforms himself into an angel of light,”<a id=\"r1572\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1572\"><sup>[1572]</sup></a>\r\nwas referring to this and such like statements in the words,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_495\">495</span>“Him follows a host of gods and demons, arranged in eleven\r\nbands.” Speaking of himself and the philosophers, he says,\r\n“We are of the party of Jupiter; others belong to other\r\ndemons.”<a id=\"r1573\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1573\"><sup>[1573]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter IV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-551"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"895ab3ee894ea6e86306a174f21ed11979b348e9e38bdbcec31efbb15e7cc8f5","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-f1573","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":"f1573","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1573\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1573\">1573</a>.  </span>Plato, <i>Phædrus</i>, <abbr title=\"page\">p.</abbr> 246.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1573","text_sha256":"9e5a5afa4cd16a4927f5e98b70946006bd0774b7062a3006f31f7585f7965dfe","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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