{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">We think, then, that they may be designated as living\r\nbeings, for this reason, that they are said to receive commandments\r\nfrom God, which is ordinarily the case only with\r\nrational beings. “I have given a commandment to all the\r\nstars,”<a id=\"r133\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f133\"><sup>[133]</sup></a> says the Lord. What, now, are these commandments?\r\nThose, namely, that each star, in its order and\r\ncourse, should bestow upon the world the amount of splendour\r\nwhich has been entrusted to it. For those which are\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_62\">62</span>called “planets” move in orbits of one kind, and those which\r\nare termed <span lang=\"grc\">ἀπλανεῖς</span> are different. Now it manifestly follows\r\nfrom this, that neither can the movement of that body take\r\nplace without a soul, nor can living things be at any time\r\nwithout motion. And seeing that the stars move with such\r\norder and regularity, that their movements never appear to\r\nbe at any time subject to derangement, would it not be the\r\nheight of folly to say that so orderly an observance of\r\nmethod and plan could be carried out or accomplished by\r\nirrational beings? In the writings of Jeremiah, indeed, the\r\nmoon is called the queen of heaven.<a id=\"r134\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f134\"><sup>[134]</sup></a> Yet if the stars are\r\nliving and rational beings, there will undoubtedly appear\r\namong them both an advance and a falling back. For the\r\nlanguage of Job, “the stars are not clean in His sight,” seems\r\nto me to convey some such idea.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VII. ON INCORPOREAL AND CORPOREAL BEINGS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-115"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7af0a21faf7d8d50d08fd841043e4cc430b35300067d9ad77cc661b1893093d4","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":45,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xlv. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f133","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":"f133","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f133\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r133\">133</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"forty-five\">xlv.</abbr> 12.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f133","text_sha256":"31def6b81b2f88c27e46afc5b39a66cf6e42f9bad90cafd8acf018343c143f03","verified":false,"work_id":null}