{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">It appears to me that Celsus has also misunderstood this\r\nstatement, “Let us make man in our image and likeness;”<a id=\"r591\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f591\"><sup>[591]</sup></a>\r\nand has therefore represented the “worms” as saying that,\r\nbeing created by God, we altogether resemble Him. If, however,\r\nhe had known the difference between man being created\r\n“in the image of God” and “after His likeness,” and that God\r\nis recorded to have said, “Let us make man after our image\r\nand likeness,” but that He made man “after the image” of\r\nGod, but not then also “after His likeness,”<a id=\"r592\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f592\"><sup>[592]</sup></a> he would not\r\nhave represented us as saying that “we are altogether like\r\nHim.” Moreover, we do not assert that the stars are subject\r\nto us; since the resurrection which is called the “resurrection\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_191\">191</span>of the just,” and which is understood by wise men, is compared\r\nto the sun, and moon, and stars, by him who said, “There is\r\none glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and\r\nanother glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another\r\nstar in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.”<a id=\"r593\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f593\"><sup>[593]</sup></a>\r\nDaniel also prophesied long ago regarding these things.<a id=\"r594\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f594\"><sup>[594]</sup></a>\r\nCelsus says further, that we assert that “all things have been\r\narranged so as to be subject to us,” having perhaps heard some\r\nof the intelligent among us speaking to that effect, and perhaps\r\nalso not understanding the saying, that “he who is the\r\ngreatest amongst us is the servant of all.”<a id=\"r595\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f595\"><sup>[595]</sup></a> And if the Greeks\r\nsay, “Then sun and moon are the slaves of mortal men,”<a id=\"r596\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f596\"><sup>[596]</sup></a> they\r\nexpress approval of the statement, and give an explanation of\r\nits meaning; but since such a statement is either not made at\r\nall by us, or is expressed in a different way, Celsus here too\r\nfalsely accuses us. Moreover, we who, according to Celsus, are\r\n“worms,” are represented by him as saying that, “seeing some\r\namong us are guilty of sin, God will come to us, or will send\r\nHis own Son, that He may consume the wicked, and that we\r\nother frogs may enjoy eternal life with Him.” Observe how\r\nthis venerable philosopher, like a low buffoon,<a id=\"r597\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f597\"><sup>[597]</sup></a> turns into ridicule\r\nand mockery, and a subject of laughter, the announcement\r\nof a divine judgment, and of the punishment of the\r\nwicked, and of the reward of the righteous; and subjoins to all\r\nthis the remark, that “such statements would be more endurable\r\nif made by worms and frogs than by Christians and Jews\r\nwho quarrel with one another!” We shall not, however,\r\nimitate his example, nor say similar things regarding those\r\nphilosophers who profess to know the nature of all things, and\r\nwho discuss with each other the manner in which all things\r\nwere created, and how the heaven and earth originated, and all\r\nthings in them; and how the souls [of men], being either unbegotten,\r\nand not created by God, are yet governed by Him,\r\nand pass from one body to another;<a id=\"r598\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f598\"><sup>[598]</sup></a> or being formed at the\r\nsame time with the body, exist for ever or pass away. For\r\ninstead of treating with respect and accepting the intention of\r\nthose who have devoted themselves to the investigation of the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_192\">192</span>truth, one might mockingly and revilingly say that such men\r\nwere “worms,” who did not measure themselves by their corner\r\nof their dung-heap in human life, and who accordingly gave\r\nforth their opinions on matters of such importance as if they\r\nunderstood them, and who strenuously assert that they have\r\nobtained a view of those things which cannot be seen without\r\na higher inspiration and a diviner power. “For no man\r\nknoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is\r\nin him: even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the\r\nSpirit of God.”<a id=\"r599\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f599\"><sup>[599]</sup></a> We are not, however, mad, nor do we compare\r\nsuch human wisdom (I use the word “wisdom” in the\r\ncommon acceptation), which busies itself not about the affairs\r\nof the multitude, but in the investigation of truth, to the\r\nwrigglings of worms or any other such creatures; but in the\r\nspirit of truth, we testify of certain Greek philosophers that they\r\nknew God, seeing “He manifested Himself to them,”<a id=\"r600\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f600\"><sup>[600]</sup></a> although\r\n“they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but\r\nbecame vain in their imaginations; and professing themselves\r\nto be wise, they became foolish, and changed the glory of the\r\nincorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,\r\nand to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.”<a id=\"r601\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f601\"><sup>[601]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XXX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-249"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0c6403b4ba8740953780481de56586b1a0c6bb789c04ad147bec55df96b8268e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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