{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">8. These particulars, then, being briefly stated regarding\r\nthe inspiration of the sacred Scriptures by the Holy\r\nSpirit, it seems necessary to explain this point also, viz. how\r\ncertain persons, not reading them correctly, have given themselves\r\nover to erroneous opinions, inasmuch as the procedure\r\nto be followed, in order to attain an understanding of the\r\nholy writings, is unknown to many. The Jews, in fine,\r\nowing to the hardness of their heart, and from a desire to\r\nappear wise in their own eyes, have not believed in our Lord\r\nand Saviour, judging that those statements which were\r\nuttered respecting Him ought to be understood literally, <i>i.e.</i>\r\nthat He ought in a sensible and visible manner to preach\r\ndeliverance to the captives, and first build a city which they\r\ntruly deem the city of God, and cut off at the same time\r\nthe chariots of Ephraim,<a id=\"r842\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f842\"><sup>[842]</sup></a> and the horse from Jerusalem;\r\nthat He ought also to eat butter and honey,<a id=\"r843\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f843\"><sup>[843]</sup></a> in order to\r\nchoose the good before He should come to know how to bring\r\nforth evil.<a id=\"r844\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f844\"><sup>[844]</sup></a> They think, also, that it has been predicted that\r\nthe wolf—that four-footed animal—is, at the coming of\r\nChrist, to feed with the lambs, and the leopard to lie down\r\nwith kids, and the calf and the bull to pasture with lions, and\r\nthat they are to be led by a little child to the pasture; that\r\nthe ox and the bear are to lie down together in the green\r\nfields, and that their young ones are to be fed together;\r\nthat lions also will frequent stalls with the oxen, and feed on\r\nstraw. And seeing that, according to history, there was no\r\naccomplishment of any of those things predicted of Him,\r\nin which they believed the signs of Christ’s advent were\r\nespecially to be observed, they refused to acknowledge the\r\npresence of our Lord Jesus Christ; nay, contrary to all the\r\nprinciples of human and divine law,<a id=\"r845\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f845\"><sup>[845]</sup></a> <i>i.e.</i> contrary to the faith\r\nof prophecy, they crucified Him for assuming to Himself the\r\nname of Christ. Thereupon the heretics, reading that it is\r\nwritten in the law, “A fire has been kindled in mine anger;”<a id=\"r846\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f846\"><sup>[846]</sup></a>\r\nand that “I the Lord am a jealous [God], visiting the sins\r\nof the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth\r\ngeneration;”<a id=\"r847\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f847\"><sup>[847]</sup></a> and that “it repenteth me that I anointed\r\nSaul to be king;”<a id=\"r848\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f848\"><sup>[848]</sup></a> and, “I am the Lord, who make peace\r\nand create evil;”<a id=\"r849\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f849\"><sup>[849]</sup></a> and again, “There is not evil in a city\r\nwhich the Lord hath not done;”<a id=\"r850\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f850\"><sup>[850]</sup></a> and, “Evils came down\r\nfrom the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem;”<a id=\"r851\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f851\"><sup>[851]</sup></a> and, “An\r\nevil spirit from the Lord plagued Saul;”<a id=\"r852\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f852\"><sup>[852]</sup></a> and reading many\r\nother passages similar to these, which are found in Scripture,\r\nthey did not venture to assert that these were not the Scriptures\r\nof God, but they considered them to be the words of\r\nthat creator God whom the Jews worshipped, and who,\r\nthey judged, ought to be regarded as just only, and not also\r\nas good; but that the Saviour had come to announce to us\r\na more perfect God, who, they allege, is not the creator of\r\nthe world,—there being different and discordant opinions\r\namong them even on this very point, because, when they\r\nonce depart from a belief in God the Creator, who is Lord\r\nof all, they have given themselves over to various inventions\r\nand fables, devising certain [fictions], and asserting that some\r\nthings were visible, and made by one [God], and that certain\r\nother things were invisible, and were created by another,\r\naccording to the vain and fanciful suggestions of their own\r\nminds. But not a few also of the more simple of those,\r\nwho appear to be restrained within the faith of the church,\r\nare of opinion that there is no greater God than the Creator,\r\nholding in this a correct and sound opinion; and yet they\r\nentertain regarding Him such views as would not be entertained\r\nregarding the most unjust and cruel of men.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-302"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"60e29b92bd1c0306f95f39e099a4ce2a1cac97fc99b529010029852891daad26","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f848","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. 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