{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c015\">We now, believing Jesus Himself, when He says respecting\r\nHis divinity, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life,”<a id=\"r1245\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1245\"><sup>[1245]</sup></a>\r\nand employs other terms of similar import; and when He says\r\nrespecting His being clothed with a human body, “And now\r\nye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth,”<a id=\"r1246\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1246\"><sup>[1246]</sup></a> conclude\r\nthat He was a kind of compound being. And so it\r\nbecame Him who was making provision for His sojourning\r\nin the world as a human being, not to expose Himself unseasonably\r\nto the danger of death. And in like manner it was\r\nnecessary that He should be taken away by His parents,\r\nacting under the instructions of an angel from heaven, who\r\ncommunicated to them the divine will, saying on the first\r\noccasion, “Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto\r\nthee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of\r\nthe Holy Ghost;”<a id=\"r1247\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1247\"><sup>[1247]</sup></a> and on the second, “Arise, and take the\r\nyoung child, and His mother, and flee into Egypt; and be\r\nthou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the\r\nyoung child to destroy Him.”<a id=\"r1248\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1248\"><sup>[1248]</sup></a> Now, what is recorded in\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_473\">473</span>these words appears to me to be not at all marvellous. For\r\nin either passage of Scripture it is stated that it was in a\r\ndream that the angel spoke these words; and that in a dream\r\ncertain persons may have certain things pointed out to them\r\nto do, is an event of frequent occurrence to many individuals,—the\r\nimpression on the mind being produced either by an\r\nangel or by some other thing. Where, then, is the absurdity\r\nin believing that He who had once become incarnate, should\r\nbe led also by human guidance to keep out of the way of\r\ndangers? Not indeed from any impossibility that it should\r\nbe otherwise, but from the moral fitness that ways and means\r\nshould be made use of to ensure the safety of Jesus. And it\r\nwas certainly better that the child Jesus should escape the\r\nsnare of Herod, and should reside with His parents in Egypt\r\nuntil the death of the conspirator, than that Divine Providence\r\nshould hinder the free will of Herod in his wish to\r\nput the child to death, or that the fabled poetic helmet of\r\nHades should have been employed, or anything of a similar\r\nkind done with respect to Jesus, or that they who came\r\nto destroy Him should have been smitten with blindness like\r\nthe people of Sodom. For the sending of help to Him in a\r\nvery miraculous and unnecessarily public manner, would not\r\nhave been of any service to Him who wished to show that\r\nas a man, to whom witness was borne by God, He possessed\r\nwithin that form which was seen by the eyes of men some\r\nhigher element of divinity,—that which was properly the Son\r\nof God—God the Word—the power of God, and the wisdom\r\nof God—He who is called the Christ. But this is not a\r\nsuitable occasion for discussing the composite nature of the\r\nincarnate Jesus; the investigation into such a subject being\r\nfor believers, so to speak, a sort of private question.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. 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