{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">4. And now we have to ascertain whether those beings\r\nwhich in the course of the discussion we have discovered\r\nto possess life and reason, were endowed with a soul along\r\nwith their bodies at the time mentioned in Scripture, when\r\n“God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the\r\nday, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars\r\nalso,”<a id=\"r135\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f135\"><sup>[135]</sup></a> or whether their spirit was implanted in them, not at\r\nthe creation of their bodies, but from without, after they had\r\nbeen already made. I, for my part, suspect that the spirit\r\nwas implanted in them from without; but it will be worth\r\nwhile to prove this from Scripture: for it will seem an easy\r\nmatter to make the assertion on conjectural grounds, while\r\nit is more difficult to establish it by the testimony of Scripture.\r\nNow it may be established conjecturally as follows.\r\nIf the soul of a man, which is certainly inferior while it\r\nremains the soul of a man, was not formed along with his\r\nbody, but is proved to have been implanted strictly from\r\nwithout, much more must this be the case with those living\r\nbeings which are called heavenly. For, as regards man,\r\nhow could the soul of him, viz. Jacob, who supplanted his\r\nbrother in the womb, appear to be formed along with his\r\nbody? Or how could his soul, or its images, be formed along\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_63\">63</span>with his body, who, while lying in his mother’s womb, was\r\nfilled with the Holy Ghost? I refer to John leaping in his\r\nmother’s womb, and exulting because the voice of the salutation\r\nof Mary had come to the ears of his mother Elisabeth.\r\nHow could his soul and its images be formed along with his\r\nbody, who, before he was created in the womb, is said to be\r\nknown to God, and was sanctified by Him before his birth?\r\nSome, perhaps, may think that God fills individuals with His\r\nHoly Spirit, and bestows upon them sanctification, not on\r\ngrounds of justice and according to their deserts, but undeservedly.\r\nAnd how shall we escape that declaration: “Is\r\nthere unrighteousness with God? God forbid!”<a id=\"r136\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f136\"><sup>[136]</sup></a> or this: “Is\r\nthere respect of persons with God?”<a id=\"r137\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f137\"><sup>[137]</sup></a> For such is the defence\r\nof those who maintain that souls come into existence\r\nwith bodies. So far, then, as we can form an opinion from\r\na comparison with the condition of man, I think it follows\r\nthat we must hold the same to hold good with heavenly\r\nbeings, which reason itself and scriptural authority show us\r\nto be the case with men.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VII. ON INCORPOREAL AND CORPOREAL BEINGS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-116"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a4f8c71dc0b6cb5b945df77a8240888bb44c97f3f14c44584e7aa2db03e0a36c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. ix. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f136","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":"f136","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f136\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r136\">136</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Romans\">Rom.</abbr> <abbr title=\"nine\">ix.</abbr> 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f136","text_sha256":"f9c7ec88be9e3ab228a544bbbc796c0dbad1b7098db4eac691883aecb9ba64dc","verified":false,"work_id":null}