{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, moreover, assumes that sun, and moon, and stars are\r\nregarded by us as of no account. Now, with regard to these,\r\nwe acknowledge that they too are “waiting for the manifestation\r\nof the sons of God,” being for the present subjected to\r\nthe “vanity” of their material bodies, “by reason of Him who\r\nhas subjected the same in hope.”<a id=\"r890\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f890\"><sup>[890]</sup></a> But if Celsus had read the\r\ninnumerable other passages where we speak of sun, moon, and\r\nstars, and especially these,—“Praise Him, all ye stars, and thou,\r\nO light,”<a id=\"r891\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f891\"><sup>[891]</sup></a> and, “Praise Him, ye heaven of heavens,”—he would\r\nnot have said of us that we regard such mighty beings, which\r\n“greatly praise” the Lord God, as of no account. Nor did\r\nCelsus know the passage: “For the earnest expectation of the\r\ncreature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.\r\nFor the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but\r\nby reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope; because\r\nthe creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of\r\ncorruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”<a id=\"r892\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f892\"><sup>[892]</sup></a>\r\nAnd with these words let us terminate our defence against the\r\ncharge of not worshipping sun, moon, and stars. And let us\r\nnow bring forward those statements of his which follow, that\r\nwe may, God willing, address to him in reply such arguments\r\nas shall be suggested by the light of truth.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-340"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"975452a83ee54093b9f5365479464fd4d38b7aa06f80e38aafb3003b6dc17031","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. viii. 19-21","verse":19,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f890","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":"f890","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f890\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r890\">890</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Romans\">Rom.</abbr> <abbr title=\"eight\">viii.</abbr> 19-21.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f890","text_sha256":"43d2212be3dcc11a8bdaed45f478fed4369725bfe9308cc67d892f2075708485","verified":false,"work_id":null}