{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">10. And what need is there to speak of the prophecies,\r\nwhich we all know to be filled with enigmas and dark\r\nsayings? And if we come to the Gospels, the exact understanding\r\nof these also, as being the mind of Christ, requires\r\nthe grace that was given to him who said, “But we have\r\nthe mind of Christ, that we might know the things freely\r\ngiven to us by God. Which things also we speak, not in the\r\nwords which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit\r\nteacheth.”<a id=\"r884\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f884\"><sup>[884]</sup></a> And who, on reading the revelations made to\r\nJohn, would not be amazed at the unspeakable mysteries\r\ntherein concealed, and which are evident [even] to him who\r\ndoes not comprehend what is written? And to what person,\r\nskilful in investigating words, would the epistles of the\r\napostles seem to be clear and easy of understanding, since\r\neven in them there are countless numbers of most profound\r\nideas, which, [issuing forth] as by an aperture, admit of no\r\nrapid comprehension?<a id=\"r885\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f885\"><sup>[885]</sup></a> And therefore, since these things\r\nare so, and since innumerable individuals fall into mistakes,\r\nit is not safe in reading [the Scriptures] to declare that one\r\neasily understands what needs the key of knowledge, which\r\nthe Saviour declares is with the lawyers. And let those\r\nanswer who will not allow that the truth was with these\r\nbefore the advent of Christ, how the key of knowledge is\r\nsaid by our Lord Jesus Christ to be with those who, as they\r\nallege, had not the books which contain the secrets<a id=\"r886\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f886\"><sup>[886]</sup></a> of\r\nknowledge, and perfect mysteries.<a id=\"r887\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f887\"><sup>[887]</sup></a> For His words run thus:\r\n“Woe unto you, ye lawyers! for ye have taken away the\r\nkey of knowledge: ye have not entered in yourselves, and\r\nthem that were entering in ye hindered.”<a id=\"r888\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f888\"><sup>[888]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-307"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"427eb5060df04fe3648196e6d96f528446a2d48f5e99c0c7d00674ec9d32eeb4","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. ii. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f884","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":"f884","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f884\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r884\">884</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 12, 13, and 16 ad fin.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f884","text_sha256":"92b4f2e9dfb1e58f474b6a2ac28e237a8cf2d34cdf26042263b248c8dc3618d4","verified":false,"work_id":null}