{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">9. And now we must return an answer also to those who\r\nwould have the God of the law to be just only, and not also\r\ngood; and let us ask such in what manner they consider the\r\nheart of Pharaoh to have been hardened by God—by what\r\nacts or by what prospective arrangements.<a id=\"r431\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f431\"><sup>[431]</sup></a> For we must\r\nobserve the conception of a God<a id=\"r432\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f432\"><sup>[432]</sup></a> who in our opinion is both\r\njust and good, but according to them only just. And let\r\nthem show us how a God whom they also acknowledge to be\r\njust, can with justice cause the heart of a man to be hardened,\r\nthat, in consequence of that very hardening, he may\r\nsin and be ruined. And how shall the justice of God be defended,\r\nif He Himself is the cause of the destruction of those\r\nwhom, owing to their unbelief (through their being hardened),\r\nHe has afterwards condemned by the authority of a judge?\r\nFor why does He blame him, saying, “But since thou wilt\r\nnot let my people go, lo, I will smite all the first-born in\r\nEgypt, even thy first-born,”<a id=\"r433\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f433\"><sup>[433]</sup></a> and whatever else was spoken\r\nthrough Moses by God to Pharaoh? For it behoves every\r\none who maintains the truth of what is recorded in Scripture,\r\nand who desires to show that the God of the law and the\r\nprophets is just, to render a reason for all these things, and\r\nto show how there is in them nothing at all derogatory to\r\nthe justice of God, since, although they deny His goodness,\r\nthey admit that He is a just judge, and creator of the world.\r\nDifferent, however, is the method of our reply to those who\r\nassert that the creator of this world is a malignant being, <i>i.e.</i>\r\na devil.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-213"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8a8f0ee4769ddb07353acb32909dbdd6576689d9a2c7631d1a4a2345f9b913bc","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f432","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f432","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f432\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r432\">432</a>. </span><span lang=\"la\">Prospectus et intuitus Dei.</span> Such is the rendering of <span lang=\"grc\">ἔννοια</span> by\r\nRufinus.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f432","text_sha256":"2c5eb5fa57a1a8dfeab3ba2cbb44ec282e359c28fa8adeba57f6dcbc97c31d97","verified":false,"work_id":null}