{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But observe whether the principles of our faith, harmonizing\r\nwith the general ideas implanted in our minds at birth, do not\r\nproduce a change upon those who listen candidly to its statements;\r\nfor although a perverted view of things, with the aid\r\nof much instruction to the same effect, has been able to implant\r\nin the minds of the multitude the belief that images are gods,\r\nand that things made of gold, and silver, and ivory, and stone\r\nare deserving of worship, yet common sense<a id=\"r369\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f369\"><sup>[369]</sup></a> forbids the supposition\r\nthat God is at all a piece of corruptible matter, or is\r\nhonoured when made to assume by men a form embodied in\r\ndead matter, fashioned according to some image or symbol of\r\nHis appearance. And therefore we say at once of images that\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_122\">122</span>they are not gods, and of such creations (of art) that they are\r\nnot to be compared with the Creator, but are small in contrast\r\nwith the God who is over all, and who created, and upholds,\r\nand governs the universe. And the rational soul recognising,\r\nas it were, its relationship [to the divine], at once rejects what\r\nit for a time supposed to be gods, and resumes its natural love<a id=\"r370\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f370\"><sup>[370]</sup></a>\r\nfor its Creator; and because of its affection towards Him,\r\nreceives Him also who first presented these truths to all\r\nnations through the disciples whom He had appointed, and\r\nwhom He sent forth, furnished with divine power and authority,\r\nto proclaim the doctrine regarding God and His kingdom.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XL."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-173"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d7aa2d04783c67e0337e32fb01fb4bcfb9b0c7c446e590e53752fff89ed25830","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-f370","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":"f370","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f370\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r370\">370</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">φίλτρον φυσικὸν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f370","text_sha256":"8e356247170d91f13af1f8b55aecd09b7aff18ef1edf8b65451722e329edaa31","verified":false,"work_id":null}