Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. Let no one, however, imagine that we mean anything\r\nimpersonal<a id=\"r44\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f44\"><sup>[44]</sup></a> when we call Him the wisdom of God; or\r\nsuppose, for example, that we understand Him to be, not a\r\nliving being endowed with wisdom, but something which\r\nmakes men wise, giving itself to, and implanting itself in, the\r\nminds of those who are made capable of receiving His virtues\r\nand intelligence. If, then, it is once rightly understood that\r\nthe only-begotten Son of God is His wisdom hypostatically<a id=\"r45\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f45\"><sup>[45]</sup></a>\r\nexisting, I know not whether our curiosity ought to advance\r\nbeyond this, or entertain any suspicion that that <span lang=\"grc\">ὑπόστασις</span>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_19\">19</span>or <span lang=\"la\"><i>substantia</i></span> contains anything of a bodily nature, since\r\neverything that is corporeal is distinguished either by form,\r\nor colour, or magnitude. And who in his sound senses ever\r\nsought for form, or colour, or size, in wisdom, in respect of\r\nits being wisdom? And who that is capable of entertaining\r\nreverential thoughts or feelings regarding God, can suppose\r\nor believe that God the Father ever existed, even for a\r\nmoment of time,<a id=\"r46\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f46\"><sup>[46]</sup></a> without having generated this Wisdom?\r\nFor in that case he must say either that God was unable to\r\ngenerate Wisdom before He produced her, so that He afterwards\r\ncalled into being her who formerly did not exist, or\r\nthat He possessed the power indeed, but—what cannot be\r\nsaid of God without impiety—was unwilling to use it; both\r\nof which suppositions, it is patent to all, are alike absurd and\r\nimpious: for they amount to this, either that God advanced\r\nfrom a condition of inability to one of ability, or that, although\r\npossessed of the power, He concealed it, and delayed the\r\ngeneration of Wisdom. Wherefore we have always held\r\nthat God is the Father of His only-begotten Son, who was\r\nborn indeed of Him, and derives from Him what He is, but\r\nwithout any beginning, not only such as may be measured by\r\nany divisions of time, but even that which the mind alone\r\ncan contemplate within itself, or behold, so to speak, with\r\nthe naked powers of the understanding. And therefore we\r\nmust believe that Wisdom was generated before any beginning\r\nthat can be either comprehended or expressed. And since\r\nall the creative power of the coming creation<a id=\"r47\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f47\"><sup>[47]</sup></a> was included\r\nin this very existence of Wisdom (whether of those things\r\nwhich have an original or of those which have a derived\r\nexistence), having been formed beforehand and arranged by\r\nthe power of foreknowledge; on account of these very\r\ncreatures which had been described, as it were, and prefigured\r\nin Wisdom herself, does Wisdom say, in the words\r\nof Solomon, that she was created the beginning of the ways\r\nof God, inasmuch as she contained within herself either the\r\nbeginnings, or forms, or species of all creation.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER II. ON CHRIST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-76"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"996535cb97d9c50abca23c2343fe05fe9d1375db078244390b20fc92d9f80b4b","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f45","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":"f45","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f45\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r45\">45</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Substantialiter.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f45","text_sha256":"d79cd5ffcff92d044aa0870edf402e25b38fe214c19978cab08752ecb384e8ed","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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