{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Then, in the next place, having either himself misunderstood\r\nthe sacred Scriptures, or those [interpreters] by whom they were\r\nnot understood, he proceeds to assert that “it is said by us that\r\nthere will remain at the time of the visitation which is to come\r\nupon the world by the fire of purification, not only those who\r\nare then alive, but also those who are long ago dead;” not observing\r\nthat it is with a secret kind of wisdom that it was said\r\nby the apostle of Jesus: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall\r\nall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the\r\nlast trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be\r\nraised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”<a id=\"r907\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f907\"><sup>[907]</sup></a> Now he ought\r\nto have noticed what was the meaning of him who uttered\r\nthese words, as being one who was by no means dead, who\r\nmade a distinction between himself and those like him and the\r\ndead, and who said afterwards, “The dead shall be raised\r\nincorruptible,” and “we shall be changed.” And as a proof\r\nthat such was the apostle’s meaning in writing those words\r\nwhich I have quoted from the First Epistle to the Corinthians,\r\nI will quote also from the First to the Thessalonians, in which\r\nPaul, as one who is alive and awake, and different from those\r\nwho are asleep, speaks as follows: “For this we say unto you\r\nby the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain\r\nunto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who are\r\nasleep; for the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with\r\na shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump\r\nof God.”<a id=\"r908\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f908\"><sup>[908]</sup></a> Then, again, after this, knowing that there were\r\nothers dead in Christ besides himself and such as he, he subjoins\r\nthe words, “The dead in Christ shall rise first; then\r\nwe who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with\r\nthem in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.”<a id=\"r909\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f909\"><sup>[909]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-344"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"195a71bee75766ed02f49737f4e8b30161b8cd3bf16c25d724ca1f010907df36","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TH","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Thess. iv. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f909","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":"f909","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f909\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r909\">909</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> 1 <abbr title=\"Thessalonians\">Thess.</abbr> <abbr title=\"four\">iv.</abbr> 16, 17.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f909","text_sha256":"9b5a7e04a5960a568661b55ddcb66caf3dd29883c900e7dcb4cb48e2afb883af","verified":false,"work_id":null}