Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">33. And, in the first place, it is to be noted that we have\r\nnowhere found in the canonical Scriptures,<a id=\"r1063\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1063\"><sup>[1063]</sup></a> up to the present\r\ntime, the word “matter” used for that substance which is\r\nsaid to underlie bodies. For in the expression of Isaiah,\r\n“And he shall devour <span lang=\"grc\">ὕλη</span>,” <i>i.e.</i> matter, “like hay,”<a id=\"r1064\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1064\"><sup>[1064]</sup></a> when\r\nspeaking of those who were appointed to undergo their\r\npunishments, the word “matter” was used instead of “sins.”\r\nAnd if this word “matter” should happen to occur in any\r\nother passage, it will never be found, in my opinion, to have\r\nthe signification of which we are now in quest, unless perhaps\r\nin the book which is called the Wisdom of Solomon, a work\r\nwhich is certainly not esteemed authoritative by all. In\r\nthat book, however, we find written as follows: “For Thy\r\nalmighty hand, that made the world out of shapeless matter,\r\nwanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears\r\nand fierce lions.”<a id=\"r1065\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1065\"><sup>[1065]</sup></a> Very many, indeed, are of opinion that\r\nthe matter of which things are made is itself signified in the\r\nlanguage used by Moses in the beginning of Genesis: “In\r\nthe beginning God made heaven and earth; and the earth was\r\ninvisible, and not arranged:”<a id=\"r1066\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1066\"><sup>[1066]</sup></a> for by the words “invisible\r\nand not arranged” Moses would seem to mean nothing else\r\nthan shapeless matter. But if this be truly matter, it is\r\nclear then that the original elements of bodies<a id=\"r1067\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1067\"><sup>[1067]</sup></a> are not\r\nincapable of change. For those who posited “atoms”—either\r\nthose particles which are incapable of subdivision,\r\nor those which are subdivided into equal parts—or any one\r\nelement, as the principles of bodily things, could not posit\r\nthe word “matter” in the proper sense of the term among\r\nthe first principles of things. For if they will have it that\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_350\">350</span>matter underlies every body—a substance convertible or\r\nchangeable, or divisible in all its parts—they will not, as\r\nis proper, assert that it exists without qualities. And with\r\nthem we agree, for we altogether deny that matter ought to\r\nbe spoken of as “unbegotten” or “uncreated,” agreeably to\r\nour former statements, when we pointed out that from water,\r\nand earth, and air or heat, different kinds of fruits were produced\r\nby different kinds of trees; or when we showed that\r\nfire, and air, and water, and earth were alternately converted\r\ninto each other, and that one element was resolved into\r\nanother by a kind of mutual consanguinity; and also when\r\nwe proved that from the food either of men or animals the\r\nsubstance of the flesh was derived, or that the moisture of\r\nthe natural seed was converted into solid flesh and bones;—all\r\nwhich go to prove that the substance of the body is\r\nchangeable, and may pass from one quality into all others.</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-353"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"396d7f64ffa81d3cd61deeecaac01818eb4323a57e5aaf6c1e2f3913f11e56bc","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1065","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":"f1065","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1065\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1065\">1065</a>.  </span><abbr title=\"Wisdom\">Wisd.</abbr> <abbr title=\"eleven\">xi.</abbr> 17.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1065","text_sha256":"226c13d57a8da00d3c13c639f3318be955fa5352e81a3e62f8d8a4a1e12e9797","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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