Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, he objects to the statement, as if it were\r\nmaintained by us, that “God will be able to do all things,” not\r\nseeing even here how these words are meant, and what the\r\n“<i>all things</i>” are which are included in it, and how it is said that\r\nGod “will be able.” But on these matters it is not necessary\r\nnow to speak; for although he might with a show of reason\r\nhave opposed this proposition, he has not done so. Perhaps\r\nhe did not understand the arguments which might be plausibly\r\nused against it, or if he did, he saw the answers that might be\r\nreturned. Now in our judgment God can do everything which\r\nit is possible for Him to do without ceasing to be God, and\r\ngood, and wise. But Celsus asserts—not comprehending the\r\nmeaning of the expression “God can do all things”—“that\r\nHe will not desire to do anything wicked,” admitting that He\r\nhas the <i>power</i>, but not the <i>will</i>, to commit evil. We, on the\r\ncontrary, maintain that as that which by nature possesses the\r\nproperty of sweetening other things through its own inherent\r\nsweetness cannot produce bitterness contrary to its own peculiar\r\nnature,<a id=\"r451\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f451\"><sup>[451]</sup></a> nor that whose nature it is to produce light\r\nthrough its being light can cause darkness; so neither is God\r\nable to commit wickedness, for the power of doing evil is contrary\r\nto His deity and its omnipotence. Whereas if any one\r\namong existing things is able to commit wickedness from being\r\ninclined to wickedness by nature, it does so from not having in\r\nits nature the ability not to do evil.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-208"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"71be24ab0a635342493dde6357796eec5a08c252efe93bae80712a383c7e7906","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-f451","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":"f451","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f451\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r451\">451</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ὥσπερ οὐ δύναται τὸ πεφυκὸς γλυκαίνειν τῷ γλυκὺ τυγχάνειν πικράζειν,\r\nπαρὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ μόνην αἰτίαν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f451","text_sha256":"c8ca717a722fd435df40d381ccfa88eb15e613b9bb8ea7ebfd071a51272ad9a7","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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