{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">8. Having made these declarations regarding the unity of\r\nthe Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, let us\r\nreturn to the order in which we began the discussion. God\r\nthe Father bestows upon all, existence; and participation in\r\nChrist, in respect of His being the word of reason, renders\r\nthem rational beings. From which it follows that they are\r\ndeserving either of praise or blame, because capable of virtue\r\nand vice. On this account, therefore, is the grace of the\r\nHoly Ghost present, that those beings which are not holy\r\nin their essence may be rendered holy by participating in it.\r\nSeeing, then, that firstly, they derive their existence from\r\nGod the Father; secondly, their rational nature from the\r\nWord; thirdly, their holiness from the Holy Spirit,—those\r\nwho have been previously sanctified by the Holy Spirit are\r\nagain made capable of receiving Christ, in respect that He\r\nis the righteousness of God; and those who have earned\r\nadvancement to this grade by the sanctification of the Holy\r\nSpirit, will nevertheless obtain the gift of wisdom according\r\nto the power and working of the Spirit of God. And this I\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_42\">42</span>consider is Paul’s meaning, when he says that to “some is\r\ngiven the word of wisdom, to others the word of knowledge,\r\naccording to the same Spirit.” And while pointing out the\r\nindividual distinction of gifts, he refers the whole of them\r\nto the source of all things in the words, “There are diversities\r\nof operations, but one God who worketh all in all.”<a id=\"r106\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f106\"><sup>[106]</sup></a>\r\nWhence also the working of the Father, which confers\r\nexistence upon all things, is found to be more glorious and\r\nmagnificent, while each one, by participation in Christ, as\r\nbeing wisdom, and knowledge, and sanctification, makes progress,\r\nand advances to higher degrees of perfection; and\r\nseeing it is by partaking of the Holy Spirit that any one\r\nis made purer and holier, he obtains, when he is made worthy,\r\nthe grace of wisdom and knowledge, in order that, after all\r\nstains of pollution and ignorance are cleansed and taken away,\r\nhe may make so great an advance in holiness and purity, that\r\nthe nature which he received from God may become such as\r\nis worthy of Him who gave it to be pure and perfect, so that\r\nthe being which exists may be as worthy as He who called\r\nit into existence. For, in this way, he who is such as his\r\nCreator wished him to be, will receive from God power\r\nalways to exist, and to abide for ever. That this may be the\r\ncase, and that those whom He has created may be unceasingly\r\nand inseparably present with Him, who IS, it is the\r\nbusiness of wisdom to instruct and train them, and to bring\r\nthem to perfection by confirmation of His Holy Spirit and\r\nunceasing sanctification, by which alone are they capable of\r\nreceiving God. In this way, then, by the renewal of the\r\nceaseless working of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in us, in\r\nits various stages of progress, shall we be able at some future\r\ntime perhaps, although with difficulty, to behold the holy and\r\nthe blessed life, in which (as it is only after many struggles\r\nthat we are able to reach it) we ought so to continue, that\r\nno satiety of that blessedness should ever seize us; but the\r\nmore we perceive its blessedness, the more should be increased\r\nand intensified within us the longing for the same, while\r\nwe ever more eagerly and freely receive and hold fast the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_43\">43</span>Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But if satiety\r\nshould ever take hold of any one of those who stand on the\r\nhighest and perfect summit of attainment, I do not think\r\nthat such an one would suddenly be deposed from his position\r\nand fall away, but that he must decline gradually and\r\nlittle by little, so that it may sometimes happen that if a brief\r\nlapsus take place, and the individual quickly repent and return\r\nto himself, he may not utterly fall away, but may retrace\r\nhis steps, and return to his former place, and again make\r\ngood that which had been lost by his negligence.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER III. 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