{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">3. Although the whole world is arranged into offices of\r\ndifferent kinds, its condition, nevertheless, is not to be supposed\r\nas one of internal discrepancies and discordances; but\r\nas our one body is provided with many members, and is held\r\ntogether by one soul, so I am of opinion that the whole world\r\nalso ought to be regarded as some huge and immense animal,\r\nwhich is kept together by the power and reason of God as by\r\none soul. This also, I think, is indicated in sacred Scripture\r\nby the declaration of the prophet, “Do not I fill heaven and\r\nearth? saith the Lord;”<a id=\"r152\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f152\"><sup>[152]</sup></a> and again, “The heaven is my\r\nthrone, and the earth is my footstool;”<a id=\"r153\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f153\"><sup>[153]</sup></a> and by the Saviour’s\r\nwords, when He says that we are to swear “neither by\r\nheaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth, for it is His\r\nfootstool.”<a id=\"r154\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f154\"><sup>[154]</sup></a> To the same effect also are the words of Paul, in\r\nhis address to the Athenians, when he says, “In Him we live,\r\nand move, and have our being.”<a id=\"r155\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f155\"><sup>[155]</sup></a> For how do we live, and\r\nmove, and have our being in God, except by His comprehending\r\nand holding together the whole world by His power?\r\nAnd how is heaven the throne of God, and the earth His\r\nfootstool, as the Saviour Himself declares, save by His power\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_75\">75</span>filling all things both in heaven and earth, according to the\r\nLord’s own words? And that God, the Father of all things,\r\nfills and holds together the world with the fulness of His\r\npower, according to those passages which we have quoted, no\r\none, I think, will have any difficulty in admitting. And now,\r\nsince the course of the preceding discussion has shown that\r\nthe different movements of rational beings, and their varying\r\nopinions, have brought about the diversity that is in the world,\r\nwe must see whether it may not be appropriate that this\r\nworld should have a termination like its beginning. For\r\nthere is no doubt that its end must be sought amid much\r\ndiversity and variety; which variety, being found to exist in\r\nthe termination of the world, will again furnish ground and\r\noccasion for the diversities of the other world which is to\r\nsucceed the present.</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-130"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bcb6af8101d0d54a331d5a22f8056fcb67d3e72f6a15f12d3c899e7db8f49c63","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 34","verse":34,"verse_end":34}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f154","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":"f154","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f154\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r154\">154</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 34.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f154","text_sha256":"05371fb1a12d2918a63eb7b2a1953ae19c02b50b27d0bc52a72d403de9b7e1e5","verified":false,"work_id":null}