{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">As Celsus supposes that we uphold the doctrine of the resurrection\r\nin order that we may see and know God, he thus follows\r\nout his notions on the subject: “After they have been utterly\r\nrefuted and vanquished, they still, as if regardless of all objections,\r\ncome back again to the same question, ‘How then shall\r\nwe see and know God? how shall we go to Him?’” Let any,\r\nhowever, who are disposed to hear us observe, that if we have\r\nneed of a body for other purposes, as for occupying a material\r\nlocality to which this body must be adapted, and if on that\r\naccount the “tabernacle” is clothed in the way we have shown,\r\nwe have no need of a body in order to know God. For that\r\nwhich sees God is not the eye of the body; it is the mind which\r\nis made in the image of the Creator,<a id=\"r1483\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1483\"><sup>[1483]</sup></a> and which God has in\r\nHis providence rendered capable of that knowledge. To see\r\nGod belongs to the pure heart, out of which no longer proceed\r\n“evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false\r\nwitness, blasphemies, the evil eye,”<a id=\"r1484\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1484\"><sup>[1484]</sup></a> or any other evil thing.\r\nWherefore it is said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they\r\nshall see God.”<a id=\"r1485\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1485\"><sup>[1485]</sup></a> But as the strength of our will is not sufficient\r\nto procure the perfectly pure heart, and as we need that God\r\nshould create it, he therefore who prays as he ought, offers this\r\npetition to God, “Create in me a clean heart, O God.”<a id=\"r1486\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1486\"><sup>[1486]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XXXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-510"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2c9ee11ad8d599de223f7054b9af5ce39f80156f694ae3bfac5e31731810b581","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":51,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. li. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1486","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":"f1486","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1486\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1486\">1486</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"fifty-one\">li.</abbr> 10.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1486","text_sha256":"14338f8f5f493fcef0b73ea627ac73eb3198e92df9ec9c432132aca600608325","verified":false,"work_id":null}