{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">3. Do you then, my son, diligently apply yourself to the\r\nreading of the sacred Scriptures. Apply yourself, I say. For\r\nwe who read the things of God need much application, lest\r\nwe should say or think anything too rashly about them. And\r\napplying yourself thus to the study of the things of God,\r\nwith faithful prejudgments such as are well pleasing to God,\r\nknock at its locked door, and it will be opened to you by the\r\nporter, of whom Jesus says, “To him the porter opens.”<a id=\"r1118\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1118\"><sup>[1118]</sup></a>\r\nAnd applying yourself thus to the divine study, seek aright,\r\nand with unwavering trust in God, the meaning of the holy\r\nScriptures, which so many have missed. Be not satisfied with\r\nknocking and seeking; for prayer is of all things indispensable\r\nto the knowledge of the things of God. For to this the\r\nSaviour exhorted, and said not only, “Knock, and it shall be\r\nopened to you; and seek, and ye shall find,”<a id=\"r1119\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1119\"><sup>[1119]</sup></a> but also, “Ask,\r\nand it shall be given unto you.”<a id=\"r1120\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1120\"><sup>[1120]</sup></a> My fatherly love to you\r\nhas made me thus bold; but whether my boldness be good,\r\nGod will know, and His Christ, and all partakers of the Spirit\r\nof God and the Spirit of Christ. May you also be a partaker,\r\nand be ever increasing your inheritance, that you may say\r\nnot only, “We are become partakers of Christ,”<a id=\"r1121\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1121\"><sup>[1121]</sup></a> but also\r\npartakers of God.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","LETTERS.","A LETTER FROM ORIGEN TO GREGORY."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-392"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"44dff5390033a11a08fa5524c393890404b51f3e4a0522cffe6ee63df760d3a4","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vii. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1119","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":"f1119","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1119\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1119\">1119</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"seven\">vii.</abbr> 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1119","text_sha256":"791c79659b3e0bd19b3c9a187ecf460731aa28faa4dff676d2584526f9aaa7d7","verified":false,"work_id":null}