Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">15. But as if, in all the instances of this covering (<i>i.e.</i> of\r\nthis history), the logical connection and order of the law had\r\nbeen preserved, we would not certainly believe, when thus\r\npossessing the meaning of Scripture in a continuous series,\r\nthat anything else was contained in it save what was indicated\r\non the surface; so for that reason divine wisdom took\r\ncare that certain stumbling-blocks, or interruptions,<a id=\"r928\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f928\"><sup>[928]</sup></a> to the\r\nhistorical meaning should take place, by the introduction into\r\nthe midst [of the narrative] of certain impossibilities and incongruities;\r\nthat in this way the very interruption of the\r\nnarrative might, as by the interposition of a bolt, present an\r\nobstacle to the reader, whereby he might refuse to acknowledge\r\nthe way which conducts to the ordinary meaning; and\r\nbeing thus excluded and debarred from it, we might be\r\nrecalled to the beginning of another way, in order that, by\r\nentering upon a narrow path, and passing to a loftier and\r\nmore sublime road, he might lay open the immense breadth\r\nof divine wisdom.<a id=\"r929\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f929\"><sup>[929]</sup></a> This, however, must not be unnoted by\r\nus, that as the chief object of the Holy Spirit is to preserve\r\nthe coherence of the spiritual meaning, either in those things\r\nwhich ought to be done or which have been already performed,\r\nif He anywhere finds that those events which, according\r\nto the history, took place, can be adapted to a spiritual\r\nmeaning, He composed a texture of both kinds in one style\r\nof narration, always concealing the hidden meaning more\r\ndeeply; but where the historical narrative could not be made\r\nappropriate to the spiritual coherence of the occurrences, He\r\ninserted sometimes certain things which either did not take\r\nplace or could not take place; sometimes also what might\r\nhappen, but what did not: and He does this at one time in\r\na few words, which, taken in their “bodily” meaning, seem\r\nincapable of containing truth, and at another by the insertion\r\nof many. And this we find frequently to be the case in\r\nthe legislative portions, where there are many things manifestly\r\nuseful among the “bodily” precepts, but a very great\r\nnumber also in which no principle of utility is at all discernible,\r\nand sometimes even things which are judged to be\r\nimpossibilities. Now all this, as we have remarked, was done\r\nby the Holy Spirit in order that, seeing those events which\r\nlie on the surface can be neither true nor useful, we may be\r\nled to the investigation of that truth which is more deeply\r\nconcealed, and to the ascertaining of a meaning worthy of\r\nGod in those Scriptures which we believe to be inspired\r\nby Him.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-316"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0d286ee8692fe9921d8eb13cadc9ba31f07cb0db537408ac59c14057480aabd0","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f929","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":"f929","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f929\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r929\">929</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Ut ita celsioris cujusdam et eminentioris tramitis per angusti callis\r\ningressum immensam divinæ scientiæ latitudinem pandat.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f929","text_sha256":"10c31452b807c8cb78691ea68a3738048c2b37741641e3f59d9091f9a508f304","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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