Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He charges us, moreover, with introducing “a man formed\r\nby the <i>hands</i> of God,” although the book of Genesis has made\r\nno mention of the “hands” of God, either when relating the\r\ncreation or the “fashioning”<a id=\"r623\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f623\"><sup>[623]</sup></a> of the man; while it is Job and\r\nDavid who have used the expression, “Thy hands have made\r\nme and fashioned me;”<a id=\"r624\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f624\"><sup>[624]</sup></a> with reference to which it would\r\nneed a lengthened discourse to point out the sense in which\r\nthese words were understood by those who used them, both as\r\nregards the difference between “making” and “fashioning,”\r\nand also the “hands” of God. For those who do not understand\r\nthese and similar expressions in the sacred Scriptures,\r\nimagine that we attribute to the God who is over all things a\r\nform<a id=\"r625\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f625\"><sup>[625]</sup></a> such as that of man; and according to their conceptions,\r\nit follows that we consider the body of God to be furnished\r\nwith wings, since the Scriptures, literally understood, attribute\r\nsuch appendages to God. The subject before us, however,\r\ndoes not require us to interpret these expressions; for, in our\r\nexplanatory remarks upon the book of Genesis, these matters\r\nhave been made, to the best of our ability, a special subject of\r\ninvestigation. Observe next the malignity<a id=\"r626\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f626\"><sup>[626]</sup></a> of Celsus in what\r\nfollows. For the Scripture, speaking of the “fashioning”<a id=\"r627\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f627\"><sup>[627]</sup></a> of\r\nthe man, says, “And breathed into his face the breath of life,\r\nand the man became a living soul.”<a id=\"r628\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f628\"><sup>[628]</sup></a> Whereon Celsus, wishing\r\nmaliciously to ridicule the “inbreathing into his face of\r\nthe breath of life,” and not understanding the sense in which\r\nthe expression was employed, states that “they composed a\r\nstory that a man was fashioned by the hands of God, and was\r\ninflated by breath blown into him,”<a id=\"r629\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f629\"><sup>[629]</sup></a> in order that, taking the\r\nword “inflated” to be used in a similar way to the inflation of\r\nskins, he might ridicule the statement, “He breathed into his\r\nface the breath of life,”—terms which are used figuratively,\r\nand require to be explained in order to show that God communicated\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_201\">201</span>to man of His incorruptible Spirit; as it is said,\r\n“For Thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things.”<a id=\"r630\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f630\"><sup>[630]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XXXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-256"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c2433dc7dc09582a2ca9e2555f68b3510f00d147656adb0eb630ca5d15590cb3","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-f623","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":"f623","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f623\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r623\">623</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐπὶ τῆς πλάσεως.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f623","text_sha256":"b2dcbe725ed4885c11b39f6187ff1839d6679020140377c2e57839019501cc21","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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