{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But that a light is suddenly kindled in the soul, as by a fire\r\nleaping forth, is a fact known long ago to our Scriptures; as\r\nwhen the prophet said, “Light ye for yourselves the light of\r\nknowledge.”<a id=\"r1053\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1053\"><sup>[1053]</sup></a> John also, who lived after him, said, “That\r\nwhich was in the Logos was life, and the life was the light of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_341\">341</span>men;”<a id=\"r1054\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1054\"><sup>[1054]</sup></a> which “true light lighteneth every man that cometh\r\ninto the world” (<i>i.e.</i> the true world, which is perceived by the\r\nunderstanding<a id=\"r1055\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1055\"><sup>[1055]</sup></a>), and maketh him a light of the world: “For\r\nthis light shone in our hearts, to give the light of the glorious\r\ngospel of God in the face of Christ Jesus.”<a id=\"r1056\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1056\"><sup>[1056]</sup></a> And therefore\r\nthat very ancient prophet, who prophesied many generations\r\nbefore the reign of Cyrus (for he was older than he by more\r\nthan fourteen generations), expressed himself in these words:\r\n“The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear?”<a id=\"r1057\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1057\"><sup>[1057]</sup></a>\r\nand, “Thy law is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my\r\npath;”<a id=\"r1058\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1058\"><sup>[1058]</sup></a> and again, “The light of Thy countenance, O Lord,\r\nwas manifested towards us;”<a id=\"r1059\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1059\"><sup>[1059]</sup></a> and, “In Thy light we shall\r\nsee light.”<a id=\"r1060\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1060\"><sup>[1060]</sup></a> And the Logos, exhorting us to come to this\r\nlight, says, in the prophecies of Isaiah: “Enlighten thyself,\r\nenlighten thyself, O Jerusalem; for thy light is come, and the\r\nglory of the Lord is risen upon thee.”<a id=\"r1061\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1061\"><sup>[1061]</sup></a> The same prophet\r\nalso, when predicting the advent of Jesus, who was to turn\r\naway men from the worship of idols, and of images, and of\r\ndemons, says, “To those that sat in the land and shadow of\r\ndeath, upon them hath the light arisen;”<a id=\"r1062\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1062\"><sup>[1062]</sup></a> and again, “The\r\npeople that sat in darkness saw a great light.”<a id=\"r1063\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1063\"><sup>[1063]</sup></a> Observe now\r\nthe difference between the fine phrases of Plato respecting the\r\n“chief good,” and the declarations of our prophets regarding\r\nthe “light” of the blessed; and notice that the truth as it is\r\ncontained in Plato concerning this subject did not at all help\r\nhis readers to attain to a pure worship of God, nor even himself,\r\nwho could philosophize so grandly about the “chief good,”\r\nwhereas the simple language of the Holy Scriptures has led to\r\ntheir honest readers being filled with a divine spirit;<a id=\"r1064\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1064\"><sup>[1064]</sup></a> and this\r\nlight is nourished within them by the oil, which in a certain\r\nparable is said to have preserved the light of the torches of the\r\nfive wise virgins.<a id=\"r1065\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1065\"><sup>[1065]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter V."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-398"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"55aec7955419766b7c3bc365f64534e1697659bacee754d8e35e0e9899a753dc","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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