{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, again, brings together a number of statements, which\r\nhe gives as admissions on our part, but which no intelligent\r\nChristian would allow. For not one of us asserts that “God\r\npartakes of form or colour.” Nor does He even partake of\r\n“motion,” because He stands firm, and His nature is permanent,\r\nand He invites the righteous man also to do the same,\r\nsaying: “But as for thee, stand thou here by me.”<a id=\"r1356\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1356\"><sup>[1356]</sup></a> And if\r\ncertain expressions indicate a kind of motion, as it were, on his\r\npart, such as this, “They heard the voice of the Lord God\r\n<i>walking</i> in the garden in the cool of the day,”<a id=\"r1357\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1357\"><sup>[1357]</sup></a> we must understand\r\nthem in this way, that it is by sinners that God is understood\r\nas moving, or as we understand the “sleep” of God,\r\nwhich is taken in a figurative sense, or His “anger,” or any\r\nother similar attribute. But “God does not partake even of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_407\">407</span>substance.”<a id=\"r1358\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1358\"><sup>[1358]</sup></a> For He is partaken of [by others] rather than\r\nthat Himself partakes of them, and He is partaken of by those\r\nwho have the Spirit of God. Our Saviour, also, does not partake\r\nof righteousness; but being Himself “righteousness,” He\r\nis partaken of <i>by</i> the righteous. A discussion about “substance”\r\nwould be protracted and difficult, and especially if it were a\r\nquestion whether that which is permanent and immaterial be\r\n“substance” properly so called, so that it would be found that\r\nGod is <i>beyond</i> “substance,” communicating of His “substance,”\r\nby means of office and power,<a id=\"r1359\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1359\"><sup>[1359]</sup></a> to those to whom He\r\ncommunicates Himself by His Word, as He does to the Word\r\nHimself; or even if He <i>is</i> “substance,” yet He is said to be\r\nin His nature “invisible,” in these words respecting our Saviour,\r\nwho is said to be “the image of the <i>invisible</i> God,”<a id=\"r1360\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1360\"><sup>[1360]</sup></a> while from\r\nthe term “invisible” it is indicated that He is “immaterial.” It\r\nis also a question for investigation, whether the “only-begotten”\r\nand “first-born of every creature” is to be called “substance\r\nof substances,” and “idea of ideas,” and the “principle of all\r\nthings,” while above all there is His Father and God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-459"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2f36fbcdffc04596c477a365ceda0c6f923639dc96883c5683def9dd0232145f","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-f1358","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":"f1358","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1358\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1358\">1358</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὐσία.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1358","text_sha256":"46a893ea24d7166c8e6fe936045ff429a9403569e33d71838ed03bf444d00b2d","verified":false,"work_id":null}