{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">5. But that we may believe on the authority of holy Scripture\r\nthat such is the case, hear how in the book of Maccabees,\r\nwhere the mother of seven martyrs exhorts her son to endure\r\ntorture, this truth is confirmed; for she says, “I ask of thee,\r\nmy son, to look at the heaven and the earth, and at all things\r\nwhich are in them, and beholding these, to know that God\r\nmade all these things when they did not exist.”<a id=\"r156\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f156\"><sup>[156]</sup></a> In the book\r\nof the Shepherd also, in the first commandment, he speaks as\r\nfollows: “First of all believe that there is one God who\r\ncreated and arranged all things, and made all things to come\r\ninto existence, and out of a state of nothingness.”<a id=\"r157\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f157\"><sup>[157]</sup></a> Perhaps\r\nalso the expression in the Psalms has reference to this: “He\r\nspake, and they were made; He commanded, and they were\r\ncreated.”<a id=\"r158\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f158\"><sup>[158]</sup></a> For the words, “He spake, and they were made,”\r\nappear to show that the substance of those things which\r\nexist is meant; while the others, “He commanded, and they\r\nwere created,” seem spoken of the qualities by which the\r\nsubstance itself has been moulded.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER I. ON THE WORLD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-132"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fdc4816f912476e3106b6928318cfaa7251ae46892df2b968b6ac331f6e0638a","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f157","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":"f157","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f157\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r157\">157</a>. </span><i>Hermæ Past.</i> <abbr title=\"book\">B.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr>; <abbr class=\"spell\">cf.</abbr> Apostolic Fathers (Ante-Nicene Library),\r\n<abbr title=\"page\">p.</abbr> 349.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f157","text_sha256":"aa3599ee419f67efdb9b910b332c4bb60937dc911c1c551d1b36686284b67056","verified":false,"work_id":null}