Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">6. To explain the matter more fully, it will not appear\r\nabsurd to make use of an illustration, although on a subject\r\nof so much difficulty it is not easy to obtain suitable illustrations.\r\nHowever, if we may speak without offence, the metal\r\niron is capable of cold and heat. If, then, a mass of iron be\r\nkept constantly in the fire, receiving the heat through all its\r\npores and veins, and the fire being continuous and the iron\r\nnever removed from it, it become wholly converted into the\r\nlatter; could we at all say of this, which is by nature a mass\r\nof iron, that when placed in the fire, and incessantly burning,\r\nit was at any time capable of admitting cold? On the contrary,\r\nbecause it is more consistent with truth, do we not\r\nrather say, what we often see happening in furnaces, that it\r\nhas become wholly fire, seeing nothing but fire is visible in\r\nit? And if any one were to attempt to touch or handle it,\r\nhe would experience the action not of iron, but of fire. In\r\nthis way, then, that soul which, like an iron in the fire, has\r\nbeen perpetually placed in the Word, and perpetually in the\r\nWisdom, and perpetually in God,<a id=\"r239\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f239\"><sup>[239]</sup></a> is God in all that it does,\r\nfeels, and understands, and therefore can be called neither convertible\r\nnor mutable, inasmuch as, being incessantly heated,\r\nit possessed immutability from its union with the Word of\r\nGod. To all the saints, finally, some warmth from the Word\r\nof God must be supposed to have passed; and in this soul the\r\ndivine fire itself must be believed to have rested, from which\r\nsome warmth may have passed to others. Lastly, the expression,\r\n“God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness\r\nabove thy fellows,”<a id=\"r240\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f240\"><sup>[240]</sup></a> shows that that soul is anointed in one\r\nway with the oil of gladness, <i>i.e.</i> with the word of God and\r\nwisdom; and his fellows, <i>i.e.</i> the holy prophets and apostles,\r\nin another. For they are said to have “run in the odour\r\nof his ointments;”<a id=\"r241\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f241\"><sup>[241]</sup></a> and that soul was the vessel which contained\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_112\">112</span>that very ointment of whose fragrance all the worthy\r\nprophets and apostles were made partakers. As, then, the\r\nsubstance of an ointment is one thing and its odour another,\r\nso also Christ is one thing and His fellows another. And as\r\nthe vessel itself, which contains the substance of the ointment,\r\ncan by no means admit any foul smell; whereas it is possible\r\nthat those who enjoy its odour may, if they remove a little\r\nway from its fragrance, receive any foul odour which comes\r\nupon them: so, in the same way, was it impossible that Christ,\r\nbeing as it were the vessel itself, in which was the substance\r\nof the ointment, should receive an odour of an opposite kind,\r\nwhile they who are His “fellows” will be partakers and\r\nreceivers of His odour, in proportion to their nearness to the\r\nvessel.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VI. ON THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-157"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fee3fe72fc363d075cf407e456999219247cb237953ce9a96b9d891d640de60f","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f239","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":"f239","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f239\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r239\">239</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Semper in verbo, semper in sapientia, semper in Deo.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f239","text_sha256":"73587f7487720a47c9fcc3ccc2efa2ba559854c15ec48d53843e3c51877f3dcf","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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