{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But it is probable that what is written by Paul in the First\r\nEpistle to the Corinthians,<a id=\"r389\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f389\"><sup>[389]</sup></a> as being addressed to Greeks who\r\nprided themselves greatly on their Grecian wisdom, has moved\r\nsome to believe that it was not the object of the gospel to win\r\nwise men. Now, let him who is of this opinion understand that\r\nthe gospel, as censuring wicked men, says of them that they\r\nare wise not in things which relate to the understanding, and\r\nwhich are unseen and eternal; but that in busying themselves\r\nabout things of sense alone, and regarding these as all-important,\r\nthey are wise men of the world: for as there are in existence\r\na multitude of opinions, some of them espousing the cause of\r\nmatter and bodies,<a id=\"r390\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f390\"><sup>[390]</sup></a> and asserting that everything is corporeal\r\nwhich has a substantial existence,<a id=\"r391\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f391\"><sup>[391]</sup></a> and that besides these nothing\r\nelse exists, whether it be called invisible or incorporeal, it says\r\nalso that these constitute the wisdom of the world, which perishes\r\nand fades away, and belongs only to this age, while those\r\nopinions which raise the soul from things here to the blessedness\r\nwhich is with God, and to His kingdom, and which teach\r\nmen to despise all sensible and visible things as existing only\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_129\">129</span>for a season, and to hasten on to things invisible, and to have\r\nregard to those things which are not seen,—these, it says, constitute\r\nthe wisdom of God. But Paul, as a lover of truth, says\r\nof certain wise men among the Greeks, when their statements\r\nare true, that “although they knew God, they glorified Him\r\nnot as God, neither were thankful.”<a id=\"r392\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f392\"><sup>[392]</sup></a> And he bears witness\r\nthat they knew God, and says, too, that this did not happen to\r\nthem without divine permission, in these words: “For God\r\nshowed it unto them;”<a id=\"r393\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f393\"><sup>[393]</sup></a> dimly alluding, I think, to those who\r\nascend from things of sense to those of the understanding,\r\nwhen he adds, “For the invisible things of God from the\r\ncreation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the\r\nthings that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead;\r\nso that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew\r\nGod, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful.”<a id=\"r394\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f394\"><sup>[394]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XLVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-183"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"30effc3823f291de41f186d776886690c8cbf7e3ec6834a569d8c18a83c61833","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. i. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f389","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":"f389","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f389\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r389\">389</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> 1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 18, etc.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f389","text_sha256":"788beac828f89104d63adf567f5c8c33697f31b9acee133463fe4966c97170f1","verified":false,"work_id":null}