{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But I maintain that, if he had had the patience (to use his own\r\nexpression) to listen to the writings of Moses and the prophets, he\r\nwould have had his attention arrested by the circumstance that\r\nthe expression “God made” is applied to heaven and earth,\r\nand to what is called the firmament, and also to the lights and\r\nstars; and after these, to the great fishes, and to every living\r\nthing among creeping animals which the waters brought forth\r\nafter their kinds, and to every fowl of heaven after its kind;\r\nand after these, to the wild beasts of the earth after their kind,\r\nand the beasts after their kind, and to every creeping thing upon\r\nthe earth after its kind; and last of all to man. The expression\r\n“made,” however, is not applied to other things; but it is\r\ndeemed sufficient to say regarding light, “And it was light;”\r\nand regarding the one gathering together of all the waters that\r\nare under the whole heaven, “It was so.” And in like manner\r\nalso, with regard to what grew upon the earth, where it is said,\r\n“The earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after\r\nits kind and after its likeness, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit,\r\nwhose seed is in itself, after its kind, upon the earth.” He\r\nwould have inquired, moreover, whether the recorded commands\r\nof God respecting the coming into existence of each part of the\r\nworld were addressed to one thing or to several;<a id=\"r712\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f712\"><sup>[712]</sup></a> and he would\r\nnot lightly have charged with being unintelligible, and as having\r\nno secret meaning, the accounts related in these books, either\r\nby Moses, or, as <i>we</i> would say, by the Divine Spirit speaking in\r\nMoses, from whom also he derived the power of prophesying;\r\nsince he “knew both the present, and the future, and the\r\npast,” in a higher degree than those priests who are alleged by\r\nthe poets to have possessed a knowledge of these things.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-276"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0aaf2817e17d3573f4ae987ac659635492abadc1f322fed68d186468d35a1122","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f712","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 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f712","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f712\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r712\">712</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τίνι ἢ τίσιν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f712","text_sha256":"791c3db5e93069d44c3081602997a84ee7b94477dc2737986275837e5d0c8425","verified":false,"work_id":null}