Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">23. And perhaps as those here, dying according to the\r\ndeath common to all, are, in consequence of the deeds done\r\nhere, so arranged as to obtain different places according to\r\nthe proportion of their sins, if they should be deemed worthy\r\nof the place called Hades;<a id=\"r1010\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1010\"><sup>[1010]</sup></a> so those there dying, so to speak,\r\ndescend into this Hades, being judged deserving of different\r\nabodes—better or worse—throughout all this space of earth,\r\nand [of being descended] from parents of different kinds,<a id=\"r1011\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1011\"><sup>[1011]</sup></a>\r\nso that an Israelite may sometimes fall among Scythians,\r\nand an Egyptian descend into Judea. And yet the Saviour\r\ncame to gather together the lost sheep of the house of Israel;\r\nbut many of the Israelites not having yielded to His teaching,\r\nthose from the Gentiles were called.... And these\r\npoints, as we suppose, have been concealed in the histories.\r\nFor “the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hid in a field;\r\nthe which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy\r\nthereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that\r\nfield.”<a id=\"r1012\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1012\"><sup>[1012]</sup></a> Let us notice, then, whether the apparent and superficial\r\nand obvious meaning of Scripture does not resemble a\r\nfield filled with plants of every kind, while the things lying\r\nin it, and not visible to all, but buried, as it were, under the\r\nplants that are seen, are the hidden treasures of wisdom\r\nand knowledge; which the Spirit through Isaiah<a id=\"r1013\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1013\"><sup>[1013]</sup></a> calls dark\r\nand invisible and concealed, God alone being able to break\r\nthe brazen gates that conceal them, and to burst the iron bars\r\nthat are upon the gates, in order that all the statements in the\r\nbook of Genesis may be discovered which refer to the various\r\ngenuine kinds, and seeds, as it were, of souls, which stand\r\nnearly related to Israel, or at a distance from it; and the\r\ndescent into Egypt of the seventy souls, that they may there\r\nbecome as the “stars of heaven in multitude.” But since\r\nnot all who are of them are the light of the world—“for not\r\nall who are of Israel are Israel”<a id=\"r1014\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1014\"><sup>[1014]</sup></a>—they become from seventy\r\nsouls as the “sand that is beside the sea-shore innumerable.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-336"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"aeb601af42864928cba9a883bf0034ed65c68645892907b9678dfc6e45342e50","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1011","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":"f1011","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1011\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1011\">1011</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">καὶ παρὰ τοῖσδε, ἤ τοῖσδε τοῖς πατράσι.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1011","text_sha256":"0a77b448edb1163e967df35df6081743052c73dcd47fccf814554ee7b8b17319","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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