{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">4. But since Paul says that certain things are visible and\r\ntemporal, and others besides these invisible and eternal, we\r\nproceed to inquire how those things which are seen are temporal—whether\r\nbecause there will be nothing at all after\r\nthem in all those periods of the coming world, in which that\r\ndispersion and separation from the one beginning is undergoing\r\na process of restoration to one and the same end and\r\nlikeness; or because, while the form of those things which\r\nare seen passes away, their essential nature is subject to no\r\ncorruption. And Paul seems to confirm the latter view,\r\nwhen he says, “For the fashion of this world passeth away.”<a id=\"r128\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f128\"><sup>[128]</sup></a>\r\nDavid also appears to assert the same in the words, “The\r\nheavens shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; and they all\r\nshall wax old as a garment, and Thou shalt change them like\r\na vesture, and like a vestment they shall be changed.”<a id=\"r129\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f129\"><sup>[129]</sup></a> For\r\nif the heavens are to be changed, assuredly that which is\r\nchanged does not perish, and if the fashion of the world\r\npasses away, it is by no means an annihilation or destruction\r\nof their material substance that is shown to take place, but a\r\nkind of change of quality and transformation of appearance.\r\nIsaiah also, in declaring prophetically that there will be a\r\nnew heaven and a new earth, undoubtedly suggests a similar\r\nview. For this renewal of heaven and earth, and this transmutation\r\nof the form of the present world, and this changing\r\nof the heavens, will undoubtedly be prepared for those who\r\nare walking along that way which we have pointed out above,\r\nand are tending to that goal of happiness to which, it is said,\r\neven enemies themselves are to be subjected, and in which\r\nGod is said to be “all and in all.” And if any one imagine\r\nthat at the end material, <i>i.e.</i> bodily, nature will be entirely\r\ndestroyed, he cannot in any respect meet my view, how\r\nbeings so numerous and powerful are able to live and to\r\nexist without bodies, since it is an attribute of the divine\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_59\">59</span>nature alone—<i>i.e.</i> of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—to\r\nexist without any material substance, and without partaking\r\nin any degree of a bodily adjunct. Another, perhaps, may\r\nsay that in the end every bodily substance will be so pure\r\nand refined as to be like the æther, and of a celestial purity\r\nand clearness. How things will be, however, is known with\r\ncertainty to God alone, and to those who are His friends\r\nthrough Christ and the Holy Spirit.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VI. ON THE END OR CONSUMMATION."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-109"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b8b9d373aa9dce7bb6d746116ade3b6672bf44c96d5ce8f13db5acaa09cba32f","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. vii. 31","verse":31,"verse_end":31}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f128","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":"f128","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f128\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r128\">128</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"seven\">vii.</abbr> 31.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f128","text_sha256":"41972dd61b7b12ab332783e6ab2cc6714142f31d2c280debf1fad89c9a25bb77","verified":false,"work_id":null}