Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Jesus taught us who it was that sent Him, in the words,\r\n“None knoweth the Father but the Son;”<a id=\"r212\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f212\"><sup>[212]</sup></a> and in these,\r\n“No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son,\r\nwho is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.”<a id=\"r213\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f213\"><sup>[213]</sup></a>\r\nHe, treating of Deity, stated to His true disciples the doctrine\r\nregarding God; and we, discovering traces of such teaching in\r\nthe Scripture narratives, take occasion from such to aid our\r\ntheological conceptions,<a id=\"r214\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f214\"><sup>[214]</sup></a> hearing it declared in one passage, that\r\n“God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all;”<a id=\"r215\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f215\"><sup>[215]</sup></a> and\r\nin another, “God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must\r\nworship Him in spirit and in truth.”<a id=\"r216\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f216\"><sup>[216]</sup></a> But the purposes for\r\nwhich the Father sent Him are innumerable; and these any\r\none may ascertain who chooses, partly from the prophets who\r\nprophesied of Him, and partly from the narratives of the\r\nevangelists. And not a few things also will he learn from the\r\napostles, and especially from Paul. Moreover, those who are\r\npious He leadeth to the light, and those who sin He will\r\npunish,—a circumstance which Celsus not observing, has represented\r\nHim “as one who will lead the pious to the light, and\r\nwho will have mercy on others, whether they sin or repent.”<a id=\"r217\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f217\"><sup>[217]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-118"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3bfe0cb66ef90974ade36c3b1f69c1e2e706e5a3b72048ccf6d9f8e159912b16","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-f214","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":"f214","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f214\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r214\">214</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ὧν ἴχνη ἐν τοῖς γεγραμμένοις εὑρίσκοντες ἀφορμὰς ἔχομεν θεολογεῖν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f214","text_sha256":"c833a4fd9c344da8c0f118b35e75a4ac2e76ba23c1d4348974b25ebfb2ad0eaa","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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