{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, in the next place, suspecting, or perhaps seeing\r\nclearly enough, the answer which might be returned by those\r\nwho defend the destruction of men by the deluge, continues:\r\n“But if he does not destroy his own offspring, whither does\r\nhe convey them out of this world<a id=\"r1324\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1324\"><sup>[1324]</sup></a> which he himself created?”\r\nTo this we reply, that God by no means removes out of the\r\nwhole world, consisting of heaven and earth, those who suffered\r\ndeath by the deluge, but removes them from a life in the flesh,\r\nand, having set them free from their bodies, liberates them at\r\nthe same time from an existence upon earth, which in many\r\nparts of Scripture it is usual to call the “world.” In the\r\nGospel according to John especially, we may frequently find\r\nthe regions of earth<a id=\"r1325\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1325\"><sup>[1325]</sup></a> termed “world,” as in the passage, “He\r\nwas the true light, which lighteneth every man that cometh\r\ninto the ‘world;’”<a id=\"r1326\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1326\"><sup>[1326]</sup></a> as also in this, “In the world ye shall\r\nhave tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the\r\nworld.”<a id=\"r1327\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1327\"><sup>[1327]</sup></a> If, then, we understand by “removing out of the\r\nworld” a transference from “regions on earth,” there is nothing\r\nabsurd in the expression. If, on the contrary, the system of\r\nthings which consists of heaven and earth be termed “world,”\r\nthen those who perished in the deluge are by no means removed\r\nout of the so-called “world.” And yet, indeed, if we have regard\r\nto the words, “Looking not at the things which are seen, but\r\nat the things which are not seen;”<a id=\"r1328\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1328\"><sup>[1328]</sup></a> and also to these, “For\r\nthe invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are\r\nclearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,”<a id=\"r1329\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1329\"><sup>[1329]</sup></a>—we\r\nmight say that he who dwells amid the “invisible” things,\r\nand what are called generally “things not seen,” <i>is</i> gone out\r\nof the world, the Word having removed him hence, and transported\r\nhim to the heavenly regions, in order to behold all\r\nbeautiful things.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-454"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7eb7f757aed76da67169fbd1d019bc946514dcbe721d2f40cd9582a23bece3b3","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1325","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":"f1325","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1325\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1325\">1325</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὸν περίγειον τόπον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1325","text_sha256":"763e3b564ebb5210834196b0cb2b81d67d2d695728252aa3ddc9be1572d12ded","verified":false,"work_id":null}