{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In what follows, some may imagine that he says something\r\nplausible against us. “If,” says he, “these people worshipped\r\none God alone, and no other, they would perhaps have some\r\nvalid argument against the worship of others. But they pay\r\nexcessive reverence to one who has but lately appeared among\r\nmen, and they think it no offence against God if they worship\r\nalso His servant.” To this we reply, that if Celsus had known\r\nthat saying, “I and my Father are one,”<a id=\"r1581\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1581\"><sup>[1581]</sup></a> and the words used\r\nin prayer by the Son of God, “As Thou and I are one,”<a id=\"r1582\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1582\"><sup>[1582]</sup></a> he\r\nwould not have supposed that we worship any other besides\r\nHim who is the supreme God. “For,” says He, “my Father\r\nis in me, and I in Him.”<a id=\"r1583\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1583\"><sup>[1583]</sup></a> And if any should from these words\r\nbe afraid of our going over to the side of those who deny that\r\nthe Father and the Son are two persons, let him weigh that\r\npassage, “And the multitude of them that believed were of one\r\nheart and of one soul,”<a id=\"r1584\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1584\"><sup>[1584]</sup></a> that he may understand the meaning of\r\nthe saying, “I and my Father are one.” We worship one God,\r\nthe Father and the Son, therefore, as we have explained; and our\r\nargument against the worship of other gods still continues valid.\r\nAnd we do not “reverence beyond measure one who has but\r\nlately appeared,” as though He did not exist before; for we\r\nbelieve Himself when He says, “Before Abraham was, I am.”<a id=\"r1585\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1585\"><sup>[1585]</sup></a>\r\nAgain He says, “I am the truth;”<a id=\"r1586\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1586\"><sup>[1586]</sup></a> and surely none of us is\r\nso simple as to suppose that truth did not exist before the time\r\nwhen Christ appeared. We worship, therefore, the Father of\r\ntruth, and the Son, who is the truth; and these, while they\r\nare two, considered as persons or subsistences, are one in unity\r\nof thought, in harmony and in identity of will. So entirely are\r\nthey one, that he who has seen the Son, “who is the brightness\r\nof God’s glory, and the express image of His person,”<a id=\"r1587\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1587\"><sup>[1587]</sup></a> has\r\nseen in Him who is the image of God, God Himself.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-559"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5a5fcbc12ca228875570e2a288f95bdc231188e82810ead5928b09c115978bf1","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John x. 30","verse":30,"verse_end":30}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1581","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":"f1581","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1581\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1581\">1581</a>. </span>John <abbr title=\"ten\">x.</abbr> 30.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1581","text_sha256":"f0fd6970d5e136ebd8718dd94abd4e4cae00117996a9cce5bc131c498cba86f2","verified":false,"work_id":null}