{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After these matters, then, he thinks that he can make us\r\nacquainted in a few words with the questions regarding the\r\nnature of evil, which have been variously discussed in many\r\nimportant treatises, and which have received very opposite\r\nexplanations. His words are: “There neither were formerly,\r\nnor are there now, nor will there be again, more or fewer evils\r\nin the world [than have always been]. For the nature of all\r\nthings is one and the same, and the generation of evils is\r\nalways the same.” He seems to have paraphrased these words\r\nfrom the discussions in the <i>Theœtetus</i>, where Plato makes\r\nSocrates say: “It is neither possible for evils to disappear from\r\namong men, nor for them to become established among the\r\ngods,” and so on. But he appears to me not to have understood\r\nPlato correctly, although professing to include all truth<a id=\"r731\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f731\"><sup>[731]</sup></a>\r\nin this one treatise, and giving to his own book against us the\r\ntitle of <i>A True Discourse</i>. For the language in the <i>Timœus</i>,\r\nwhere it is said, “When the gods purify the earth with water,”\r\nshows that the earth, when purified with water, contains less\r\nevil than it did before its purification. And this assertion, that\r\nthere at one time were fewer evils in the world, is one which\r\nwe make, in harmony with the opinion of Plato, because of the\r\nlanguage in the <i>Theœtetus</i>, where he says that “evils cannot\r\ndisappear from among men.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LXII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-283"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9b0936c7ca771d150aecd53599ac62374e966e9d018410053e90cd9e28d2e5da","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-f731","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":"f731","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f731\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r731\">731</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ὁ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐκπεριλαμβάνων.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f731","text_sha256":"66f19356f587f6e85f55d72402206231941f7d93199070859c4ecfe07160630f","verified":false,"work_id":null}