{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">For there are different appearances, as it were, of the Word,\r\naccording as He shows Himself to each one of those who come\r\nto His doctrine; and this in a manner corresponding to the\r\ncondition of him who is just becoming a disciple, or of him\r\nwho has made a little progress, or of him who has advanced\r\nfurther, or of him who has already <i>nearly</i> attained to virtue, or\r\nwho has even <i>already</i> attained it. And hence it is not the\r\ncase, as Celsus and those like him would have it, that our God\r\nwas transformed, and ascending the lofty mountain, showed\r\nthat His real appearance was something different, and far\r\nmore excellent than what those who remained below, and were\r\nunable to follow Him on high, beheld. For those below did\r\nnot possess eyes capable of seeing the transformation of the\r\nWord into His glorious and more divine condition. But with\r\ndifficulty were they able to receive Him as He was; so that it\r\nmight be said of Him by those who were unable to behold His\r\nmore excellent nature: “We saw Him, and He had no form\r\nnor comeliness; but His form was mean,<a id=\"r536\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f536\"><sup>[536]</sup></a> and inferior to that\r\nof the sons of men.”<a id=\"r537\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f537\"><sup>[537]</sup></a> And let these remarks be an answer\r\nto the suppositions of Celsus, who does not understand the\r\nchanges or transformations of Jesus, as related in the histories,\r\nnor His mortal and immortal nature.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-235"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"384b326aeb07ede5e17467ba750fa45d6ef9088fc87e399c139f8a0b27b188a1","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f537","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":"f537","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f537\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r537\">537</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐκλεῖπον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f537","text_sha256":"f2addcdb2fc29e25fb3dbfb0de48e29351d13977c64bef47295fcbf624ee2242","verified":false,"work_id":null}