Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And why do I say “to all?” For even with His own\r\napostles and disciples He was not perpetually present, nor did\r\nHe constantly show Himself to them, because they were not able\r\nwithout intermission<a id=\"r186\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f186\"><sup>[186]</sup></a> to receive His divinity. For His deity\r\nwas more resplendent after He had finished the economy<a id=\"r187\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f187\"><sup>[187]</sup></a> [of\r\nsalvation]: and this Peter, surnamed Cephas, the first-fruits\r\nas it were of the apostles, was enabled to behold, and along\r\nwith him the twelve (Matthias having been substituted in room\r\nof Judas); and after them He appeared to the five hundred\r\nbrethren at once, and then to James, and subsequently to all\r\nthe others besides the twelve apostles, perhaps to the seventy\r\nalso, and lastly to Paul, as to one born out of due time, and who\r\nknew well how to say, “Unto me, who am less than the least\r\nof all saints, is this grace given;” and probably the expression\r\n“least of all” has the same meaning with “one born out of\r\ndue time.” For as no one could reasonably blame Jesus for\r\nnot having admitted all His apostles to the high mountain, but\r\nonly the three already mentioned, on the occasion of His transfiguration,\r\nwhen He was about to manifest the splendour which\r\nappeared in His garments, and the glory of Moses and Elias\r\ntalking with Him, so none could reasonably object to the statements\r\nof the apostles, who introduce the appearance of Jesus\r\nafter His resurrection as having been made not to all, but to\r\nthose only whom He knew to have received eyes capable of\r\nseeing His resurrection. I think, moreover, that the following\r\nstatement regarding Him has an apologetic value<a id=\"r188\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f188\"><sup>[188]</sup></a> in reference\r\nto our subject, viz.: “For to this end Christ died, and rose\r\nagain, that He might be Lord both of the dead and living.”<a id=\"r189\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f189\"><sup>[189]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_69\">69</span>For observe, it is conveyed in these words, that Jesus died\r\nthat He might be Lord of the dead; and that He rose again\r\nto be Lord not only of the dead, but also of the living. And\r\nthe apostle understands, undoubtedly, by the dead over whom\r\nChrist is to be Lord, those who are so called in the first\r\nEpistle to the Corinthians, “For the trumpet shall sound, and\r\nthe dead shall be raised incorruptible;”<a id=\"r190\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f190\"><sup>[190]</sup></a> and by the living,\r\nthose who are to be changed, and who are different from the\r\ndead who are to be raised. And respecting the living the words\r\nare these, “And we shall be changed;” an expression which\r\nfollows immediately after the statement, “The dead shall be\r\nraised first.”<a id=\"r191\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f191\"><sup>[191]</sup></a> Moreover, in the first Epistle to the Thessalonians,\r\ndescribing the same change in different words, he says\r\nthat they who sleep are not the same as those who are alive;\r\nhis language being, “I would not have you to be ignorant,\r\nbrethren, concerning them who are asleep, that ye sorrow not,\r\neven as others which have no hope. For if we believe that\r\nJesus died, and rose again, even so them also that sleep in Jesus\r\nwill God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the\r\nword of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the\r\ncoming of the Lord, shall not prevent them that are asleep.”<a id=\"r192\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f192\"><sup>[192]</sup></a>\r\nThe explanation which appeared to us to be appropriate to\r\nthis passage, we gave in the exegetical remarks which we have\r\nmade on the first Epistle to the Thessalonians.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-112"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4520b01852d8c1aefe4b4e5fb248bb999794ea0220667fee4a47522fffcce20d","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. 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