{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">11. And as if the sun, uttering a voice, were to say, “I\r\nliquefy and dry up,” liquefaction and drying up being opposite\r\nthings, he would not speak falsely as regards the point\r\nin question;<a id=\"r455\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f455\"><sup>[455]</sup></a> wax being melted and mud being dried by\r\nthe same heat; so the same operation, which was performed\r\nthrough the instrumentality of Moses, proved the hardness of\r\nPharaoh on the one hand, the result of his wickedness, and\r\nthe yielding of the mixed Egyptian multitude who took their\r\ndeparture with the Hebrews. And the brief statement<a id=\"r456\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f456\"><sup>[456]</sup></a> that\r\nthe heart of Pharaoh was softened, as it were, when he said,\r\n“But ye shall not go far: ye will go a three days’ journey,\r\nand leave your wives,”<a id=\"r457\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f457\"><sup>[457]</sup></a> and anything else which he said,\r\nyielding little by little before the signs, proves that the\r\nwonders made some impression even upon him, but did not\r\naccomplish all [that they might]. Yet even this would not\r\nhave happened, if that which is supposed by the many—the\r\nhardening of Pharaoh’s heart—had been produced by God\r\nHimself. And it is not absurd to soften down such expressions\r\nagreeably to common usage:<a id=\"r458\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f458\"><sup>[458]</sup></a> for good masters often\r\nsay to their slaves, when spoiled by their kindness and forbearance,\r\n“I have made you bad, and I am to blame for\r\noffences of such enormity.” For we must attend to the\r\ncharacter and force of the phrase, and not argue sophistically,<a id=\"r459\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f459\"><sup>[459]</sup></a>\r\ndisregarding the meaning of the expression. Paul accordingly,\r\nhaving examined these points clearly, says to the sinner: “Or\r\ndespisest thou the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and\r\nlong-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth\r\nthee to repentance? but, after thy hardness and impenitent\r\nheart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of\r\nwrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”<a id=\"r460\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f460\"><sup>[460]</sup></a>\r\nNow, let what the apostle says to the sinner be addressed to\r\nPharaoh, and then the announcements made to him will be\r\nunderstood to have been made with peculiar fitness, as to\r\none who, according to his hardness and unrepentant heart,\r\nwas treasuring up to himself wrath; seeing that his hardness\r\nwould not have been proved nor made manifest unless\r\nmiracles had been performed, and miracles, too, of such\r\nmagnitude and importance.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-218"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e9ac5f03a11b0bb782241bf0a5c522a92380e866f1a1b886d03d0d4b7d5e092e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f459","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":"f459","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f459\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r459\">459</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">συκοφαντεῖν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f459","text_sha256":"51c59fca00d7cd261247ccfe3d6d6fcb6a80cb73610d08ddf4b0dc0c4977d74f","verified":false,"work_id":null}