{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">13. It is therefore by the sentence of God that he is abandoned\r\nwho deserves to be so, while over some sinners God\r\nexercises forbearance; not, however, without a definite principle\r\nof action.<a id=\"r483\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f483\"><sup>[483]</sup></a> Nay, the very fact that He is long-suffering\r\nconduces to the advantage of those very persons, since the\r\nsoul over which He exercises this providential care is immortal;\r\nand, as being immortal and everlasting, it is not,\r\nalthough not immediately cared for, excluded from salvation,\r\nwhich is postponed to a more convenient time. For perhaps\r\nit is expedient for those who have been more deeply imbued\r\nwith the poison of wickedness to obtain this salvation at a\r\nlater period. For as medical men sometimes, although they\r\ncould quickly cover over the scars of wounds, keep back and\r\ndelay the cure for the present, in the expectation of a better\r\nand more perfect recovery, knowing that it is more salutary\r\nto retard the treatment in the cases of swellings caused by\r\nwounds, and to allow the malignant humours to flow off for\r\na while, rather than to hasten a superficial cure, by shutting\r\nup in the veins the poison of a morbid humour, which, excluded\r\nfrom its customary outlets, will undoubtedly creep\r\ninto the inner parts of the limbs, and penetrate to the very\r\nvitals of the viscera, producing no longer mere disease in the\r\nbody, but causing destruction to life; so, in like manner,\r\nGod also, who knows the secret things of the heart, and foreknows\r\nthe future, in much forbearance allows certain events\r\nto happen, which, coming from without upon men, cause to\r\ncome forth into the light the passions and vices which are\r\nconcealed within, that by their means those may be cleansed\r\nand cured who, through great negligence and carelessness,\r\nhave admitted within themselves the roots and seeds of sins,\r\nso that, when driven outwards and brought to the surface,\r\nthey may in a certain degree be cast forth and dispersed.<a id=\"r484\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f484\"><sup>[484]</sup></a>\r\nAnd thus, although a man may appear to be afflicted with evils\r\nof a serious kind, suffering convulsions in all his limbs, he\r\nmay nevertheless, at some future time, obtain relief and a\r\ncessation from his trouble; and, after enduring his afflictions\r\nto satiety, may, after many sufferings, be restored again to\r\nhis [proper] condition. For God deals with souls not merely\r\nwith a view to the short space of our present life, included\r\nwithin sixty years<a id=\"r485\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f485\"><sup>[485]</sup></a> or more, but with reference to a perpetual\r\nand never-ending period, exercising His providential care\r\nover souls that are immortal, even as He Himself is eternal\r\nand immortal. For He made the rational nature, which He\r\nformed in His own image and likeness, incorruptible; and\r\ntherefore the soul, which is immortal, is not excluded by the\r\nshortness of the present life from the divine remedies and\r\ncures.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-221"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"16ce13880ae2837c0ab308728ac52ecd4805c2d80333de1bb2febe7a8523500a","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f484","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":"f484","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f484\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r484\">484</a>. </span><span lang=\"la\">Digeri.</span> The rendering “dispersed” seems to agree best with the\r\nmeaning intended to be conveyed.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f484","text_sha256":"ba24646e25318198bc0fb40f63807a98203473aa256183e1648003021f881c5f","verified":false,"work_id":null}