{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But as he asserts that “the Mosaic narrative most impiously\r\nrepresents God as in a state of weakness from the very commencement\r\n[of things], and as unable to gain over [to obedience]\r\neven one single man whom He Himself had formed,”\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_206\">206</span>we say in answer that the objection<a id=\"r650\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f650\"><sup>[650]</sup></a> is much the same as if one\r\nwere to find fault with the existence of evil, which God has not\r\nbeen able to prevent even in the case of a single individual,\r\nso that <i>one</i> man might be found from the very beginning of\r\nthings who was born into the world untainted by sin. For as\r\nthose whose business it is to defend the doctrine of providence\r\ndo so by means of arguments which are not to be despised,<a id=\"r651\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f651\"><sup>[651]</sup></a>\r\nso also the subjects of Adam and his son will be philosophically\r\ndealt with by those who are aware that in the Hebrew language\r\nAdam signifies man; and that in those parts of the narrative\r\nwhich appear to refer to Adam as an individual, Moses is discoursing\r\nupon the nature of man in general.<a id=\"r652\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f652\"><sup>[652]</sup></a> For “in Adam”\r\n(as the Scripture<a id=\"r653\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f653\"><sup>[653]</sup></a> says) “all die,” and were condemned in the\r\nlikeness of Adam’s transgression, the word of God asserting\r\nthis not so much of <i>one particular individual</i> as of the <i>whole\r\nhuman race</i>. For in the connected series of statements which\r\nappears to apply as to one particular individual, the curse\r\npronounced upon Adam is regarded as common to all [the\r\nmembers of the race], and what was spoken with reference to\r\nthe woman is spoken of <i>every</i> woman without exception.<a id=\"r654\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f654\"><sup>[654]</sup></a> And\r\nthe expulsion of the man and woman from paradise, and their\r\nbeing clothed with tunics of skins (which God, because of the\r\ntransgression of men, made for those who had sinned), contain\r\na certain secret and mystical doctrine (far transcending that of\r\nPlato) of the soul’s losing its wings,<a id=\"r655\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f655\"><sup>[655]</sup></a> and being borne downwards\r\nto earth, until it can lay hold of some stable resting-place.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XL."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-261"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6d01c3fd29c7519d3db2b2463f36a186fc2c10338204a64eca4c6109cd9a6da1","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-f655","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":"f655","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f655\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r655\">655</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">πτεροῤῥυούσης.</span> This is a correction for <span lang=\"grc\">πτεροφυούσης</span>, the textual reading\r\nin the Benedictine and Spencer’s <abbr title=\"editions\">edd.</abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f655","text_sha256":"baa0936c5481c5b6189cd059a6f208171683d7b8d0992a57de27ef684a0bef0e","verified":false,"work_id":null}