Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">11. The way, then, as it appears to us, in which we ought\r\nto deal with the Scriptures, and extract from them their\r\nmeaning, is the following, which has been ascertained from\r\nthe Scriptures themselves. By Solomon in the Proverbs\r\nwe find some such rule as this enjoined respecting the divine\r\ndoctrines of Scripture:<a id=\"r893\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f893\"><sup>[893]</sup></a> “And do thou portray them in a\r\nthreefold manner, in counsel and knowledge, to answer words\r\nof truth to them who propose them to thee.”<a id=\"r894\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f894\"><sup>[894]</sup></a> The individual\r\nought, then, to portray the ideas of holy Scripture in\r\na threefold manner upon his own soul; in order that the\r\nsimple man may be edified by the “flesh,” as it were, of the\r\nScripture, for so we name the obvious sense; while he who\r\nhas ascended a certain way [may be edified] by the “soul,”\r\nas it were. The perfect man, again, and he who resembles\r\nthose spoken of by the apostle, when he says, “We speak\r\nwisdom among them that are perfect, but not the wisdom\r\nof the world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to\r\nnought; but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the\r\nhidden wisdom, which God hath ordained before the ages,\r\nunto our glory,”<a id=\"r895\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f895\"><sup>[895]</sup></a> [may receive edification] from the spiritual\r\nlaw, which has a shadow of good things to come. For as\r\nman consists of body, and soul, and spirit, so in the same\r\nway does Scripture, which has been arranged to be given by\r\nGod for the salvation of men. And therefore we deduce\r\nthis also from a book which is despised by some—<i>The\r\nShepherd</i>—in respect of the command given to Hermas to\r\nwrite two books, and after so doing to announce to the\r\npresbyters of the church what he had learned from the\r\nSpirit. The words are as follow: “You will write two\r\nbooks, and give one to Clement, and one to Grapte. And\r\nGrapte shall admonish the widows and the orphans, and\r\nClement will send to the cities abroad, while you will announce\r\nto the presbyters of the church.”<a id=\"r896\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f896\"><sup>[896]</sup></a> Now Grapte,\r\nwho admonishes the widows and the orphans, is the mere\r\nletter [of Scripture], which admonishes those who are yet\r\nchildren in soul, and not able to call God their Father, and\r\nwho are on that account styled orphans,—admonishing,\r\nmoreover, those who no longer have an unlawful bridegroom,<a id=\"r897\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f897\"><sup>[897]</sup></a>\r\nbut who remain widows, because they have not yet become\r\nworthy of the [heavenly] Bridegroom; while Clement, who\r\nis already beyond the letter, is said to send what is written\r\nto the cities abroad, as if we were to call these the “souls,”\r\nwho are above [the influence of] bodily [affections] and\r\ndegraded<a id=\"r898\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f898\"><sup>[898]</sup></a> ideas,—the disciple of the Spirit himself being\r\nenjoined to make known, no longer by letters, but by living\r\nwords, to the presbyters of the whole church of God, who\r\nhave become grey<a id=\"r899\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f899\"><sup>[899]</sup></a> through wisdom.</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-309"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9723d942102b16593193587d5a823734a952a94cc169ecf7a5e89baf51752885","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f896","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. 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