{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Since Celsus, moreover, from a desire to depreciate the\r\naccounts which our Scriptures give of the kingdom of God,\r\nhas quoted none of them, as if they were unworthy of being\r\nrecorded by him (or perhaps because he was unacquainted with\r\nthem), while, on the other hand, he quotes the sayings of\r\nPlato, both from his <i>Epistles</i> and the <i>Phœdrus</i>, as if these were\r\ndivinely inspired, but our Scriptures were not, let us set forth\r\na few points, for the sake of comparison with these plausible\r\ndeclarations of Plato, which did not, however, dispose the\r\nphilosopher to worship in a manner worthy of him the Maker\r\nof all things. For he ought not to have adulterated or polluted\r\nthis worship with what we call “idolatry,” but what the many\r\nwould describe by the term “superstition.” Now, according to\r\na Hebrew figure of speech, it is said of God in the eighteenth\r\nPsalm, that “He made darkness His secret place,”<a id=\"r1125\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1125\"><sup>[1125]</sup></a> to signify\r\nthat those notions which should be worthily entertained of God\r\nare invisible and unknowable, because God conceals Himself\r\nin darkness, as it were, from those who cannot endure the splendours\r\nof His knowledge, or are incapable of looking at them,\r\npartly owing to the pollution of their understanding, which is\r\nclothed with the body of mortal lowliness, and partly owing\r\nto its feebler power of comprehending God. And in order that\r\nit may appear that the knowledge of God has rarely been\r\nvouchsafed to men, and has been found in very few individuals,\r\nMoses is related to have entered into the darkness where God\r\nwas.<a id=\"r1126\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1126\"><sup>[1126]</sup></a> And again, with regard to Moses it is said: “Moses\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_356\">356</span>alone shall come near the Lord, but the rest shall not come\r\nnigh.”<a id=\"r1127\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1127\"><sup>[1127]</sup></a> And again, that the prophet may show the depth of\r\nthe doctrines which relate to God, and which is unattainable\r\nby those who do not possess the “Spirit which searcheth all\r\nthings, even the deep things of God,” he added: “The abyss\r\nlike a garment is His covering.”<a id=\"r1128\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1128\"><sup>[1128]</sup></a> Nay, our Lord and Saviour,\r\nthe Logos of God, manifesting that the greatness of the knowledge\r\nof the Father is appropriately comprehended and known\r\npre-eminently by Him alone, and in the second place by those\r\nwhose minds are enlightened by the Logos Himself and God,\r\ndeclares: “No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither\r\nknoweth any man the Father but the Son, and he to whomsoever\r\nthe Son will reveal Him.”<a id=\"r1129\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1129\"><sup>[1129]</sup></a> For no one can worthily\r\nknow the “uncreated”<a id=\"r1130\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1130\"><sup>[1130]</sup></a> and first-born of all created nature like\r\nthe Father who begat Him, nor any one the Father like the\r\nliving Logos, and His Wisdom and Truth. By sharing in Him\r\nwho takes away from the Father what is called “darkness,”\r\nwhich He “made His secret place,” and “the abyss,” which is\r\ncalled His “covering,” and in this way unveiling the Father,\r\nevery one knows the Father who<a id=\"r1131\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1131\"><sup>[1131]</sup></a> is capable of knowing Him.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-410"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"790f9af33180a3b15ceb430af2a0403252b683676cddc732a683b8647c7a1620","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. 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