{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">For it is impossible that the good which is the result of\r\naccident, or of communication, should be like that good which\r\ncomes by nature; and yet the former will never be lost by him\r\nwho, so to speak, partakes of the “living” bread with a view to\r\nhis own preservation. But if it should fail any one, it must\r\nbe through his own fault, in being slothful to partake of this\r\n“living bread” and “genuine drink,” by means of which the\r\nwings, nourished and watered, are fitted for their purpose, even\r\naccording to the saying of Solomon, the wisest of men, concerning\r\nthe truly rich man, that “he made to himself wings\r\nlike an eagle, and returns to the house of his patron.”<a id=\"r1250\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1250\"><sup>[1250]</sup></a> For\r\nit became God, who knows how to turn to proper account even\r\nthose who in their wickedness have apostatized from Him, to\r\nplace wickedness of this sort in some part of the universe, and\r\nto appoint a training-school of virtue, wherein those must\r\nexercise themselves who would desire to recover in a “lawful\r\nmanner”<a id=\"r1251\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1251\"><sup>[1251]</sup></a> the possession [which they had lost]; in order that\r\nbeing tested, like gold in the fire, by the wickedness of these,\r\nand having exerted themselves to the utmost to prevent anything\r\nbase injuring their rational nature, they may appear\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_385\">385</span>deserving of an ascent to divine things, and may be elevated\r\nby the Word to the blessedness which is above all things, and\r\nso to speak, to the very summit of goodness. Now he who in\r\nthe Hebrew language is named Satan, and by some Satanas—as\r\nbeing more in conformity with the genius of the Greek\r\nlanguage—signifies, when translated into Greek, “adversary.”\r\nBut every one who prefers vice and a vicious life, is (because\r\nacting in a manner contrary to virtue) Satanas, that is, an\r\n“adversary” to the Son of God, who is righteousness, and\r\ntruth, and wisdom.<a id=\"r1252\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1252\"><sup>[1252]</sup></a> With more propriety, however, is <i>he</i>\r\ncalled “adversary,” who was the first among those that were\r\nliving a peaceful and happy life to lose his wings, and to fall\r\nfrom blessedness; he who, according to Ezekiel, walked faultlessly\r\nin all his ways, “until iniquity was found in him,”<a id=\"r1253\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1253\"><sup>[1253]</sup></a> and\r\nwho being the “seal of resemblance” and the “crown of\r\nbeauty” in the paradise of God, being filled as it were with\r\ngood things, fell into destruction, in accordance with the word\r\nwhich said to him in a mystic sense: “Thou hast fallen into\r\ndestruction, and shalt not abide for ever.”<a id=\"r1254\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1254\"><sup>[1254]</sup></a> We have ventured\r\nsomewhat rashly to make these few remarks, although in so\r\ndoing we have added nothing of importance to this treatise.\r\nIf any one, however, who has leisure for the examination of\r\nthe sacred writings, should collect together from all sources\r\nand form into one body of doctrine what is recorded concerning\r\nthe origin of evil, and the manner of its dissolution, he\r\nwould see that the views of Moses and the prophets regarding\r\nSatan had not been even dreamed of either by Celsus or any\r\none of those whose soul had been dragged down, and torn\r\naway from God, and from right views of Him, and from His\r\nword, by this wicked demon.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XLIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-439"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1b1cb699ae3cac19a9a3f30c7513c759ef0d13791a3a555ce88b863c43db46f7","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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