{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus would also have us to offer first-fruits to demons. But\r\nwe would offer them to Him who said, “Let the earth bring\r\nforth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding\r\nfruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth.”<a id=\"r1621\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1621\"><sup>[1621]</sup></a>\r\nAnd to Him to whom we offer first-fruits we also send up our\r\nprayers, “having a great high priest, that is passed into the\r\nheavens, Jesus the Son of God,” and “we hold fast this profession”<a id=\"r1622\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1622\"><sup>[1622]</sup></a>\r\nas long as we live; for we find God and His only-begotten\r\nSon, manifested to us in Jesus, to be gracious and kind to\r\nus. And if we would wish to have besides a great number of\r\nbeings who shall ever prove friendly to us, we are taught that\r\n“thousand thousands stood before Him, and ten thousand times\r\nten thousand ministered unto Him.”<a id=\"r1623\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1623\"><sup>[1623]</sup></a> And these, regarding\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_520\">520</span>all as their relations and friends who imitate their piety towards\r\nGod, and in prayer call upon Him with sincerity, work along\r\nwith them for their salvation, appear unto them, deem it their\r\noffice and duty to attend to them, and as if by common agreement\r\nthey visit with all manner of kindness and deliverance\r\nthose who pray to God, to whom they themselves also pray:\r\n“For they are all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for\r\nthose who shall be heirs of salvation.”<a id=\"r1624\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1624\"><sup>[1624]</sup></a> Let the learned Greeks\r\nsay that the human soul at its birth is placed under the charge\r\nof demons: Jesus has taught us not to despise even the little\r\nones in His church, saying, “Their angels do always behold the\r\nface of my Father which is in heaven.”<a id=\"r1625\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1625\"><sup>[1625]</sup></a> And the prophet\r\nsays, “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them\r\nthat fear Him, and delivereth them.”<a id=\"r1626\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1626\"><sup>[1626]</sup></a> We do not, then, deny\r\nthat there are many demons upon earth, but we maintain that\r\nthey exist and exercise power among the wicked, as a punishment\r\nof their wickedness. But they have no power over those\r\nwho “have put on the whole armour of God,” who have\r\nreceived strength to “withstand the wiles of the devil,”<a id=\"r1627\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1627\"><sup>[1627]</sup></a> and\r\nwho are ever engaged in contests with them, knowing that “we\r\nwrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,\r\nagainst powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,\r\nagainst spiritual wickedness in high places.”<a id=\"r1628\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1628\"><sup>[1628]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-581"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"72242b1007fe65ee7fb0862ae08cbe106cd4b93982827a2f35642cb03f4dcd66","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DAN","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Dan. vii. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1623","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":"f1623","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1623\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1623\">1623</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Daniel\">Dan.</abbr> <abbr title=\"seven\">vii.</abbr> 10.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1623","text_sha256":"dc3715eeeee796627f04cfdb5ed5a27108598bfeeb35851e4e4fb279dd3d3cb8","verified":false,"work_id":null}