{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">12. But wisdom is also called the stainless mirror of the\r\nἐνέργεια or working of God. We must first understand,\r\nthen, what the working of the power of God is. It is a sort\r\nof vigour, so to speak, by which God operates either in creation,\r\nor in providence, or in judgment, or in the disposal and\r\narrangement of individual things, each in its season. For as\r\nthe image formed in a mirror unerringly reflects all the acts\r\nand movements of him who gazes on it, so would Wisdom\r\nhave herself to be understood when she is called the stainless\r\nmirror of the power and working of the Father: as the Lord\r\nJesus Christ also, who is the Wisdom of God, declares of\r\nHimself when He says, “The works which the Father doeth,\r\nthese also doeth the Son likewise.”<a id=\"r71\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f71\"><sup>[71]</sup></a> And again He says, that\r\nthe Son cannot do anything of Himself, save what He sees\r\nthe Father do. As therefore the Son in no respect differs\r\nfrom the Father in the power of His works, and the work of\r\nthe Son is not a different thing from that of the Father, but\r\none and the same movement, so to speak, is in all things, He\r\ntherefore named Him a stainless mirror, that by such an expression\r\nit might be understood that there is no dissimilarity\r\nwhatever between the Son and the Father. How, indeed,\r\ncan those things which are said by some to be done after the\r\nmanner in which a disciple resembles or imitates his master,\r\nor according to the view that those things are made by the\r\nSon in bodily material which were first formed by the Father\r\nin their spiritual essence, agree with the declarations of Scripture,\r\nseeing in the Gospel the Son is said to do not similar\r\nthings, but the <i>same</i> things in a similar manner?</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER II. ON CHRIST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-88"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fe4fad4f61e4d7dc1ef8635eb955d76d3eb4daca44c22ff4380069788e3134dc","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John v. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f71","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":"f71","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f71\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r71\">71</a>. </span>John <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 19.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f71","text_sha256":"21d37990fcba2470eeeb6580f4b668c3221f9a3865195b1f32c1db295d7e2002","verified":false,"work_id":null}