Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">9. Now the cause, in all the points previously enumerated,\r\nof the false opinions, and of the impious statements or\r\nignorant assertions<a id=\"r875\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f875\"><sup>[875]</sup></a> about God, appears to be nothing else\r\nthan the not understanding the Scripture according to its\r\nspiritual meaning, but the interpretation of it agreeably to\r\nthe mere letter. And therefore, to those who believe that\r\nthe sacred books are not the compositions of men, but that\r\nthey were composed by inspiration<a id=\"r876\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f876\"><sup>[876]</sup></a> of the Holy Spirit,\r\nagreeably to the will of the Father of all things through\r\nJesus Christ, and that they have come down to us, we must\r\npoint out the ways [of interpreting them] which appear\r\n[correct] to us, who cling to the standard<a id=\"r877\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f877\"><sup>[877]</sup></a> of the heavenly\r\nchurch of Jesus Christ according to the succession of the\r\napostles. Now, that there are certain mystical economies\r\nmade known by the holy Scriptures, all—even the most\r\nsimple of those who adhere to the word—have believed; but\r\nwhat these are, candid and modest individuals confess that\r\nthey know not. If, then, one were to be perplexed about\r\nthe intercourse of Lot with his daughters, and about the two\r\nwives of Abraham, and the two sisters married to Jacob, and\r\nthe two handmaids who bore him children, they can return\r\nno other answer than this, that these are mysteries not understood\r\nby us. Nay, also, when the [description of the] fitting\r\nout of the tabernacle is read, believing that what is written is\r\na type,<a id=\"r878\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f878\"><sup>[878]</sup></a> they seek to adapt what they can to each particular\r\nrelated about the tabernacle,—not being wrong so far as regards\r\ntheir belief that the tabernacle is a type of <i>something</i>, but\r\nerring sometimes in adapting the description of that of which\r\nthe tabernacle is a type, to some special thing in a manner\r\nworthy of Scripture. And all the history that is considered\r\nto tell of marriages, or the begetting of children, or of wars,\r\nor any histories whatever that are in circulation among\r\nthe multitude, they declare to be types; but of what in each\r\nindividual instance, partly owing to their habits not being\r\nthoroughly exercised—partly, too, owing to their precipitation—sometimes,\r\neven when an individual does happen to be well\r\ntrained and clear-sighted, owing to the excessive difficulty of\r\ndiscovering things on the part of men,—the nature of each\r\nparticular regarding these [types] is not clearly ascertained.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-305"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a32c544cff8f6889589ac62ed903ec4e7d2257e9a0f3f620230172579e7c23ec","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f876","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":"f876","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f876\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r876\">876</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐπιπνοίας.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f876","text_sha256":"cffdfec85d5052652b219375395fd355c43693ae6c7e7c21a9c1be3e5217ac05","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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