{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">There is therefore One whose favour we should seek, and to\r\nwhom we ought to pray that He would be gracious to us—the\r\nMost High God, whose favour is gained by piety and the practice\r\nof every virtue. And if he would have us to seek the favour\r\nof others after the Most High God, let him consider that, as the\r\nmotion of the shadow follows that of the body which casts it,\r\nso in like manner it follows, that when we have the favour of\r\nGod, we have also the goodwill of all angels and spirits who\r\nare friends of God. For they know who are worthy of the\r\ndivine approval, and they are not only well disposed to them,\r\nbut they co-operate with them in their endeavours to please\r\nGod: they seek His favour on their behalf; with their prayers\r\nthey join their own prayers and intercessions for them. We\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_548\">548</span>may indeed boldly say, that men who aspire after better things\r\nhave, when they pray to God, tens of thousands of sacred powers\r\nupon their side. These, even when not asked, pray with them,\r\nthey bring succour to our mortal race, and if I may so say, take\r\nup arms alongside of it: for they see demons warring and\r\nfighting most keenly against the salvation of those who devote\r\nthemselves to God, and despise the hostility of demons; they\r\nsee them savage in their hatred of the man who refuses to serve\r\nthem with the blood and fumes of sacrifices, but rather strives\r\nin every way, by word and deed, to be in peace and union with\r\nthe Most High through Jesus, who put to flight multitudes of\r\ndemons when He went about “healing,” and delivering “all\r\nwho were oppressed by the devil.”<a id=\"r1667\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1667\"><sup>[1667]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter LXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-611"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"45818e12d7bde69137dc32937d5228f10d658ab986ab6e21dc30f91ad8e90f42","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts x. 38","verse":38,"verse_end":38}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1667","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":"f1667","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1667\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1667\">1667</a>. </span>Acts <abbr title=\"ten\">x.</abbr> 38.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1667","text_sha256":"a4890974dc3fdc3b7f9a373187af4a8c7fff5e4832ebeaa77a75c06e4d37423a","verified":false,"work_id":null}