{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">7. I know not, indeed, how the heretics, not understanding\r\nthe meaning of the apostle in these words, consider the term\r\n“subjection” degrading as applied to the Son; for if the\r\npropriety of the title be called in question, it may easily be\r\nascertained from making a contrary supposition. Because if\r\nit be not good to be in subjection, it follows that the opposite\r\nwill be good, viz. not to be in subjection. Now the language\r\nof the apostle, according to their view, appears to indicate by\r\nthese words, “And when all things shall be subdued unto\r\nHim, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him\r\nthat put all things under Him,”<a id=\"r740\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f740\"><sup>[740]</sup></a> that He, who is not now in\r\nsubjection to the Father, will become subject to Him when\r\nthe Father shall have first subdued all things unto Him. But\r\nI am astonished how it can be conceived to be the meaning,\r\nthat He who, while all things are not yet subdued to Him, is\r\nnot Himself in subjection, should—at a time when all things\r\nhave been subdued to Him, and when He has become King\r\nof all men, and holds sway over all things—be supposed then\r\nto be made subject, seeing He was not formerly in subjection;\r\nfor such do not understand that the subjection of Christ to\r\nthe Father indicates that our happiness has attained to perfection,\r\nand that the work undertaken by Him has been\r\nbrought to a victorious termination, seeing He has not only\r\npurified the power of supreme government over the whole of\r\ncreation, but presents to the Father the principles of the\r\nobedience and subjection of the human race in a corrected\r\nand improved condition.<a id=\"r741\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f741\"><sup>[741]</sup></a> If, then, that subjection be held\r\nto be good and salutary by which the Son is said to be subject\r\nto the Father, it is an extremely rational and logical inference\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_261\">261</span>to deduce that the subjection also of enemies, which is said\r\nto be made to the Son of God, should be understood as being\r\nalso salutary and useful; as if, when the Son is said to be\r\nsubject to the Father, the perfect restoration of the whole of\r\ncreation is signified, so also, when enemies are said to be\r\nsubjected to the Son of God, the salvation of the conquered\r\nand the restoration of the lost is in that understood to consist.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER V. THAT THE WORLD TOOK ITS BEGINNING IN TIME."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-272"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"78ff50b520560e4d796578cd3f8c7eec993f6b261c35012798cbffdd070651aa","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f741","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":"f741","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f741\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r741\">741</a>. </span><span lang=\"la\">Cum non solum regendi ac regnandi summam, quam in universam\r\nemendaverit creaturam, verum etiam obedientiæ et subjectione correcta\r\nreparataque humani generis Patri offerat instituta.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f741","text_sha256":"6a75357c0af31e9e6d3e4a0608170563519d9933af556e10b744c40b0b30c781","verified":false,"work_id":null}