{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this Celsus relates at length opinions which he ascribes\r\nto us, but which we do not hold, regarding the Divine Being,\r\nto the effect that “he is corporeal in his nature, and possesses\r\na body like a man.” As he undertakes to refute opinions\r\nwhich are none of ours, it would be needless to give either the\r\nopinions themselves or their refutation. Indeed, if we did hold\r\nthose views of God which he ascribes to us, and which he\r\nopposes, we would be bound to quote his words, to adduce our\r\nown arguments, and to refute his. But if he brings forward\r\nopinions which he has either heard from no one, or if it be\r\nassumed that he has heard them, it must have been from those\r\nwho are very simple and ignorant of the meaning of Scripture,\r\nthen we need not undertake so superfluous a task as that of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_450\">450</span>refuting them. For the Scriptures plainly speak of God as of\r\na being without body. Hence it is said, “No man hath seen\r\nGod at any time;”<a id=\"r1466\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1466\"><sup>[1466]</sup></a> and the First-born of all creation is\r\ncalled “the image of the invisible God,”<a id=\"r1467\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1467\"><sup>[1467]</sup></a> which is the same\r\nas if it were said that He is incorporeal. However, we have\r\nalready said something on the nature of God while examining\r\ninto the meaning of the words, “God is a Spirit, and they who\r\nworship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-504"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"68fa9083c9d22e37c886644bccda4a61c15150b1cf1dd682458aab626b00bada","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"COL","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Col. i. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1467","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":"f1467","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1467\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1467\">1467</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Colossians\">Col.</abbr> <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 15.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1467","text_sha256":"5f4efc43eaeaf1c08707cef4abb6ce7d38133f6af358733811ecc2700c2adde7","verified":false,"work_id":null}