{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">13. Now a “spiritual” interpretation is of this nature:\r\nwhen one is able to point out what are the heavenly things\r\nof which these serve as the patterns and shadow, who are\r\nJews “according to the flesh,” and of what things future\r\nthe law contains a shadow, and any other expressions of this\r\nkind that may be found in holy Scripture; or when it is a\r\nsubject of inquiry, what is that wisdom hidden in a mystery\r\nwhich “God ordained before the world for our glory, which\r\nnone of the princes of this world knew;”<a id=\"r906\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f906\"><sup>[906]</sup></a> or the meaning of\r\nthe apostle’s language, when, employing certain illustrations\r\nfrom Exodus or Numbers, he says: “These things happened\r\nto them in a figure,<a id=\"r907\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f907\"><sup>[907]</sup></a> and they are written on our account, on\r\nwhom the ends of the ages have come.”<a id=\"r908\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f908\"><sup>[908]</sup></a> Now, an opportunity\r\nis afforded us of understanding of what those things\r\nwhich happened to them were figures, when he adds: “And\r\nthey drank of that spiritual rock which followed them, and\r\nthat rock was Christ.”<a id=\"r909\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f909\"><sup>[909]</sup></a> In another epistle also, when referring\r\nto the tabernacle, he mentions the direction which\r\nwas given to Moses: “Thou shalt make [all things] according\r\nto the pattern which was showed thee in the mount.”<a id=\"r910\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f910\"><sup>[910]</sup></a> And\r\nwriting to the Galatians, and upbraiding certain individuals\r\nwho seem to themselves to read the law, and yet without\r\nunderstanding it, because of their ignorance of the fact that\r\nan allegorical meaning underlies what is written, he says to\r\nthem in a certain tone of rebuke: “Tell me, ye who desire\r\nto be under 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\r\nother by a free woman. But he who was of the bond\r\nwoman was born according to the flesh; but he of the free\r\nwoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for\r\nthese are the two covenants.”<a id=\"r911\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f911\"><sup>[911]</sup></a> And here this point is to be\r\nattended to, viz. the caution with which the apostle employs\r\nthe expression, “Ye who are under the law, do ye not hear\r\nthe law?” Do ye not <i>hear</i>, <i>i.e.</i> do ye not understand and\r\nknow? In the Epistle to the Colossians, again, briefly summing\r\nup and condensing the meaning of the whole law,\r\nhe says: “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in\r\ndrink, or in respect of holy days, or of the new moon, or\r\nof the Sabbath, which are a shadow of things to come.”<a id=\"r912\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f912\"><sup>[912]</sup></a>\r\nWriting to the Hebrews also, and treating of those who belong\r\nto the circumcision, he says: “Those who serve to the\r\nexample and shadow of heavenly things.”<a id=\"r913\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f913\"><sup>[913]</sup></a> Now perhaps,\r\nthrough these illustrations, no doubt will be entertained\r\nregarding the five books of Moses, by those who hold the\r\nwritings of the apostle, as divinely inspired. And if they\r\nrequire, with respect to the rest of the history, that those\r\nevents which are contained in it should be considered as\r\nhaving happened for an ensample to those of whom they are\r\nwritten, we have observed that this also has been stated\r\nin the Epistle to the Romans, where the apostle adduces an\r\ninstance from the third book of Kings, saying, “I have left\r\nme seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to\r\nBaal;”<a id=\"r914\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f914\"><sup>[914]</sup></a> which expression Paul understood as figuratively\r\nspoken of those who are called Israelites according to the\r\nelection, in order to show that the advent of Christ had not\r\nonly now been of advantage to the Gentiles, but that very\r\nmany even of the race of Israel had been called to salvation.</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-312"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dd72afc86788c5181eec91f5327fc46135eede60e1436d11cd6a96ccf5abd53f","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. x. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f908","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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