{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But the majority of those who are accounted believers are\r\nnot of this advanced class; but from being either unable or\r\nunwilling to keep every day in this manner, they require some\r\nsensible memorials to prevent spiritual things from passing altogether\r\naway from their minds. It is to this practice of setting\r\napart some days distinct from others, that Paul seems to me to\r\nrefer in the expression, “part of the feast;”<a id=\"r1602\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1602\"><sup>[1602]</sup></a> and by these words\r\nhe indicates that a life in accordance with the divine word consists\r\nnot “in a part of the feast,” but in one entire and never-ceasing\r\nfestival. Again, compare the festivals, observed among\r\nus as these have been described above, with the public feasts of\r\nCelsus and the heathen, and say if the former are not much\r\nmore sacred observances than those feasts in which the lust of\r\nthe flesh runs riot, and leads to drunkenness and debauchery.\r\nIt would be too long for us at present to show why we are\r\nrequired by the law of God to keep its festivals by eating “the\r\nbread of affliction,”<a id=\"r1603\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1603\"><sup>[1603]</sup></a> or “leaven with bitter herbs,”<a id=\"r1604\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1604\"><sup>[1604]</sup></a> or why it\r\nsays, “Humble your souls,”<a id=\"r1605\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1605\"><sup>[1605]</sup></a> and such like. For it is impossible\r\nfor man, who is a compound being, in which “the flesh\r\nlusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh,”<a id=\"r1606\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1606\"><sup>[1606]</sup></a> to\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_511\">511</span>keep the feast with his whole nature; for either he keeps the\r\nfeast with his spirit and afflicts the body, which through the\r\nlust of the flesh is unfit to keep it along with the spirit, or else\r\nhe keeps it with the body, and the spirit is unable to share in\r\nit. But we have for the present said enough on the subject of\r\nfeasts.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-570"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"95928abdc1999997fd677d32889a09e33171edec2cfa331febf8b3a475c8575e","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-f1604","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":"f1604","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1604\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1604\">1604</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Exodus\">Ex.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twelve\">xii.</abbr> 8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1604","text_sha256":"22824ddde8caac8e491e3f774fa8e0dda241252afa0d03f7f90b235a4153e05a","verified":false,"work_id":null}