{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">From what has been said, it will be manifest to intelligent\r\nhearers how we have to answer the following: “All the rest\r\nof the race will be completely burnt up, and they alone will\r\nremain.” It is not to be wondered at, indeed, if such thoughts\r\nhave been entertained by those amongst us who are called in\r\nScripture the “foolish things” of the world, and “base things,”\r\nand “things which are despised,” and “things which are not,”\r\nbecause “by the foolishness of preaching it pleased God to\r\nsave them that believe on Him, after that, in the wisdom of\r\nGod, the world by wisdom knew not God,”<a id=\"r903\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f903\"><sup>[903]</sup></a>—because such\r\nindividuals are unable to see distinctly the sense of each particular\r\npassage,<a id=\"r904\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f904\"><sup>[904]</sup></a> or unwilling to devote the necessary leisure to\r\nthe investigation of Scripture, notwithstanding the injunction of\r\nJesus, “Search the Scriptures.”<a id=\"r905\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f905\"><sup>[905]</sup></a> The following, moreover,\r\nare his ideas regarding the fire which is to be brought upon\r\nthe world by God, and the punishments which are to befall\r\nsinners. And perhaps, as it is appropriate to children that\r\nsome things should be addressed to them in a manner befitting\r\ntheir infantile condition, to convert them, as being of very\r\ntender age, to a better course of life; so, to those whom the word\r\nterms “the foolish things of the world,” and “the base,” and\r\n“the despised,” the just and obvious meaning of the passages\r\nrelating to punishments is suitable, inasmuch as they cannot\r\nreceive any other mode of conversion than that which is by\r\nfear and the presentation of punishment, and thus be saved\r\nfrom the many evils [which would befall them].<a id=\"r906\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f906\"><sup>[906]</sup></a> The Scripture\r\naccordingly declares that only those who are unscathed by\r\nthe fire and the punishments are to remain,—those, viz., whose\r\nopinions, and morals, and mind have been purified to the\r\nhighest degree; while, on the other hand, those of a different\r\nnature—those, viz., who, according to their deserts, require the\r\nadministration of punishment by fire—will be involved in these\r\nsufferings with a view to an end which it is suitable for God\r\nto bring upon those who have been created in His image, but\r\nwho have lived in opposition to the will of that nature which\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_285\">285</span>is according to His image. And this is our answer to the statement,\r\n“All the rest of the race will be completely burnt up,\r\nbut they alone are to remain.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-343"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d78afa3a2228d1e82e110bc36a4d3919e11db0086b0a1e0d9751f032a1db5c78","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":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John v. 39","verse":39,"verse_end":39}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f905","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":"f905","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f905\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r905\">905</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> John <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 39.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f905","text_sha256":"d7718d1962e9567d9ef651cecea55616b30102d05df9789a5530695007f34981","verified":false,"work_id":null}