{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">For Scripture testifies, in regard to those who have a knowledge\r\nof those things of which Celsus speaks, and who profess\r\na philosophy founded on these principles, that they, “when they\r\nknew God, glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful,\r\nbut became vain in their imaginations;” and notwithstanding\r\nthe bright light of knowledge with which God had enlightened\r\nthem, “their foolish heart” was carried away, and became\r\n“darkened.”<a id=\"r1520\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1520\"><sup>[1520]</sup></a> Thus we may see how those who accounted themselves\r\nwise gave proofs of great folly, when, after such grand\r\narguments delivered in the schools on God and on things apprehended\r\nby the reason, they “changed the glory of the incorruptible\r\nGod into an image made like to corruptible man, and to\r\nbirds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.”<a id=\"r1521\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1521\"><sup>[1521]</sup></a> As, then,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_471\">471</span>they lived in a way unworthy of the knowledge which they had\r\nreceived from God, His providence leaving them to themselves,\r\nthey were given “up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their\r\nown hearts to dishonour their own bodies,”<a id=\"r1522\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1522\"><sup>[1522]</sup></a> in shamelessness\r\nand licentiousness, because they “changed the truth of God\r\ninto a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than\r\nthe Creator.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XLVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-524"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2a807690a4e23c8d74551c0953da942d2a27c70de15c1e60f1e78be3a120e53c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. i. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1520","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":"f1520","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1520\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1520\">1520</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Romans\">Rom.</abbr> <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 21.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1520","text_sha256":"7df923a52a428c3af3ca687deaa011b3c063344076c0d3d14e644c339bea902f","verified":false,"work_id":null}