{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">1. I know that some will attempt to say that, even\r\naccording to the declarations of our own Scriptures,\r\nGod is a body, because in the writings\r\nof Moses they find it said, that “our God is a\r\nconsuming fire;”<a id=\"r19\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f19\"><sup>[19]</sup></a> and in the Gospel according to John,\r\nthat “God is a Spirit, and they who worship Him must\r\nworship Him in spirit and in truth.”<a id=\"r20\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f20\"><sup>[20]</sup></a> Fire and spirit,\r\naccording to them, are to be regarded as nothing else than\r\na body. Now, I should like to ask these persons what they\r\nhave to say respecting that passage where it is declared that\r\nGod is light; as John writes in his epistle, “God is light,\r\nand in Him there is no darkness at all.”<a id=\"r21\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f21\"><sup>[21]</sup></a> Truly He is that\r\nlight which illuminates the whole understanding of those\r\nwho are capable of receiving truth, as is said in the thirty-sixth\r\nPsalm, “In Thy light we shall see light.”<a id=\"r22\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f22\"><sup>[22]</sup></a> For what\r\nother light of God can be named, “in which any one sees\r\nlight,” save an influence of God, by which a man, being\r\nenlightened, either thoroughly sees the truth of all things,\r\nor comes to know God Himself, who is called the truth?\r\nSuch is the meaning of the expression, “In Thy light we\r\nshall see light;” <i>i.e.</i> in Thy word and wisdom, which is Thy\r\nSon, in Himself we shall see Thee the Father. Because He\r\nis called light, shall He be supposed to have any resemblance\r\nto the light of the sun? Or how should there be the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_9\">9</span>slightest ground for imagining, that from that corporeal\r\nlight any one could derive the cause of knowledge, and come\r\nto the understanding of the truth?</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER I. ON GOD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-66"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b9f81c7c6818bf05f69b5686f8f430413a11fb0271472a8687863e57c83c1a32","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":36,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxxvi. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f22","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":"f22","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f22\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r22\">22</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-six\">xxxvi.</abbr> 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f22","text_sha256":"8964e3523d4000d4ec60b037c28d511cf68646b3d09b9d5f06e2df6660b6ba0f","verified":false,"work_id":null}