{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And erring widely from the meaning of Scripture, he says\r\nthat “God gave wells<a id=\"r672\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f672\"><sup>[672]</sup></a> also to the righteous.” Now he did\r\nnot observe that the righteous do not construct cisterns,<a id=\"r673\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f673\"><sup>[673]</sup></a> but\r\ndig wells, seeking to discover the inherent ground and source\r\nof potable blessings,<a id=\"r674\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f674\"><sup>[674]</sup></a> inasmuch as they receive in a figurative\r\nsense the commandment which enjoins, “Drink waters from\r\nyour own vessels, and from your own wells of fresh water.\r\nLet not your water be poured out beyond your own fountain,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_210\">210</span>but let it pass into your own streets. Let it belong to you\r\nalone, and let no alien partake with thee.”<a id=\"r675\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f675\"><sup>[675]</sup></a> Scripture frequently\r\nmakes use of the histories of real events, in order to\r\npresent to view more important truths, which are but obscurely\r\nintimated; and of this kind are the narratives relating to the\r\n“wells,” and to the “marriages,” and to the various acts of\r\n“sexual intercourse” recorded of righteous persons, respecting\r\nwhich, however, it will be more seasonable to offer an explanation\r\nin the exegetical writings referring to those very passages.\r\nBut that wells were constructed by righteous men in the land\r\nof the Philistines, as related in the book of Genesis,<a id=\"r676\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f676\"><sup>[676]</sup></a> is manifest\r\nfrom the wonderful wells which are shown at Ascalon, and\r\nwhich are deserving of mention on account of their structure,\r\nso foreign and peculiar compared with that of other wells.\r\nMoreover, that both young women<a id=\"r677\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f677\"><sup>[677]</sup></a> and female servants are to\r\nbe understood metaphorically, is not <i>our</i> doctrine merely, but\r\none which we have received from the beginning from wise\r\nmen, among whom a certain one said, when exhorting his\r\nhearers to investigate the figurative meaning: “Tell me, ye\r\nthat read the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written\r\nthat Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond maid, the other\r\nby a free woman. But he who was of the bond woman was\r\nborn after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.\r\nWhich things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants;\r\nthe one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,\r\nwhich is Agar.”<a id=\"r678\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f678\"><sup>[678]</sup></a> And a little after, “But Jerusalem which\r\nis above is free, which is the mother of us all.” And any one\r\nwho will take up the Epistle to the Galatians may learn how\r\nthe passages relating to the “marriages,” and the intercourse\r\nwith “the maid-servants,” have been allegorized; the Scripture\r\ndesiring us to imitate not the literal acts of those who did these\r\nthings, but (as the apostles of Jesus are accustomed to call\r\nthem) the spiritual.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XLIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-265"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8aec8aa602cd6de2ce2a54aa7fe0a8d9a2b445cb8bdc3b2a98629c934c057204","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-f673","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":"f673","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f673\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r673\">673</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">λάκκους.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f673","text_sha256":"681fcd4fffa7ac385a2b85ed66ba568a9f4b42ad97d6727ef773c49c8833f652","verified":false,"work_id":null}