{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">6. Now, that it is our business to live virtuously, and that\r\nGod asks this of us, as not being dependent on Him nor on\r\nany other, nor, as some think, upon fate, but as being our own\r\ndoing, the prophet Micah will prove when he says: “If it\r\nhas been announced to thee, O man, what is good, or what\r\ndoes the Lord require of thee, except to do justice and to\r\nlove mercy?”<a id=\"r396\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f396\"><sup>[396]</sup></a> Moses also: “I have placed before thy face\r\nthe way of life, and the way of death: choose what is good,\r\nand walk in it.”<a id=\"r397\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f397\"><sup>[397]</sup></a> Isaiah too: “If you are willing, and hear\r\nme, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye be unwilling,\r\nand will not hear me, the sword will consume you: for the\r\nmouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”<a id=\"r398\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f398\"><sup>[398]</sup></a> And in the Psalms:\r\n“If my people had heard me, and Israel had walked in my\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_166\">166</span>ways, I would have humbled their enemies to nothing, and\r\nlaid my hand upon those that afflicted them;”<a id=\"r399\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f399\"><sup>[399]</sup></a> showing that\r\nit was in the power of His people to hear and to walk in the\r\nways of God. And the Saviour also, when He commands,\r\n“But I say unto you, Resist not evil;”<a id=\"r400\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f400\"><sup>[400]</sup></a> and, “Whosoever\r\nshall be angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the\r\njudgment;”<a id=\"r401\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f401\"><sup>[401]</sup></a> and, “Whosoever shall look upon a woman to\r\nlust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in\r\nhis heart;”<a id=\"r402\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f402\"><sup>[402]</sup></a> and by any other commandment which He\r\ngives, declares that it lies with ourselves to keep what is\r\nenjoined, and that we shall reasonably<a id=\"r403\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f403\"><sup>[403]</sup></a> be liable to condemnation\r\nif we transgress. And therefore He says in addition:\r\n“He that heareth my words, and doeth them, shall be likened\r\nto a prudent man, who built his house upon a rock,” etc. etc.;\r\n“while he that heareth them, but doeth them not, is like a\r\nfoolish man, who built his house upon the sand,” etc.<a id=\"r404\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f404\"><sup>[404]</sup></a> And\r\nwhen He says to those on His right hand, “Come, ye blessed\r\nof my Father,” etc.; “for I was an hungered, and ye gave\r\nme to eat; I was athirst, and ye gave me to drink,”<a id=\"r405\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f405\"><sup>[405]</sup></a> it is\r\nexceedingly manifest that He gives the promises to these\r\nas being deserving of praise. But, on the contrary, to the\r\nothers, as being censurable in comparison with them, He\r\nsays, “Depart, ye cursed, into everlasting fire!”<a id=\"r406\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f406\"><sup>[406]</sup></a> And let\r\nus observe how Paul also converses<a id=\"r407\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f407\"><sup>[407]</sup></a> with us as having freedom\r\nof will, and as being ourselves the cause of ruin or salvation,\r\nwhen he says, “Dost thou despise the riches of His\r\ngoodness, and of His patience, and of His long-suffering; not\r\nknowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?\r\nBut, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart,\r\nthou art treasuring up for thyself wrath on the day of wrath\r\nand revelation of the righteous judgment of God; who will\r\nrender to every one according to his works: to those who, by\r\npatient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory and immortality,\r\neternal life; while to those who are contentious, and\r\nbelieve not the truth, but who believe iniquity, anger, wrath,\r\ntribulation, and distress, on every soul of man that worketh\r\nevil; on the Jew first, and on the Greek: but glory, and\r\nhonour, and peace to every one that worketh good; to the\r\nJew first, and to the Greek.”<a id=\"r408\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f408\"><sup>[408]</sup></a> There are, indeed, innumerable\r\npassages in the Scriptures which establish with exceeding\r\nclearness the existence of freedom of will.</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-208"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"97c8d5746dadb13afc43ca5ac97fd33edecf33716b7cb692e5caafcb3409197c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DEU","chapter":30,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. xxx. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f397","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. 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