{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Seeing God the Father is invisible and inseparable from\r\nthe Son, the Son is not generated from Him by “prolation,”\r\nas some suppose. For if the Son be a “prolation” of the\r\nFather (the term “prolation” being used to signify such a\r\ngeneration as that of animals or men usually is), then, of\r\nnecessity, both He who “prolated” and He who <i>was</i> “prolated”\r\nare corporeal. For we do not say, as the heretics suppose, that\r\nsome part of the substance of God was converted into the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_343\">343</span>Son, or that the Son was procreated by the Father out of\r\nthings non-existent,<a id=\"r1032\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1032\"><sup>[1032]</sup></a> <i>i.e.</i> beyond His own substance, so that\r\nthere once was a time when He did not exist; but, putting\r\naway all corporeal conceptions, we say that the Word and\r\nWisdom was begotten out of the invisible and incorporeal without\r\nany corporeal feeling, as if it were an act of the will proceeding\r\nfrom the understanding. Nor, seeing He is called\r\nthe Son of [His] love, will it appear absurd if in this way He\r\nbe called also the Son of [His] will. Nay, John also indicates\r\nthat “God is Light,”<a id=\"r1033\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1033\"><sup>[1033]</sup></a> and Paul also declares that the Son\r\nis the splendour of everlasting light.<a id=\"r1034\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1034\"><sup>[1034]</sup></a> As light, accordingly,\r\ncould never exist without splendour, so neither can the Son\r\nbe understood to exist without the Father; for He is called\r\nthe “express image of His person,” and the Word and\r\nWisdom. How, then, can it be asserted that there once was\r\na time when He was not the Son? For that is nothing else\r\nthan to say that there was once a time when He was not the\r\nTruth, nor the Wisdom, nor the Life, although in all these\r\nHe is judged to be the perfect essence of God the Father;\r\nfor these things cannot be severed from Him, or even be\r\nseparated from His essence. And although these qualities\r\nare said to be many in understanding,<a id=\"r1035\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1035\"><sup>[1035]</sup></a> yet in their nature and\r\nessence they are one, and in them is the fulness of divinity.\r\nNow this expression which we employ—“that there never\r\nwas a time when He did not exist”—is to be understood with\r\nan allowance. For these very words “when” or “never”\r\nhave a meaning that relates to time, whereas the statements\r\nmade regarding Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are to be\r\nunderstood as transcending all time, all ages, and all eternity.\r\nFor it is the Trinity alone which exceeds the comprehension\r\nnot only of temporal but even of eternal intelligence; while\r\nother things which are not included in it<a id=\"r1036\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1036\"><sup>[1036]</sup></a> are to be measured\r\nby times and ages. This Son of God, then, in respect of the\r\nWord being God, which was in the beginning with God, no\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_344\">344</span>one will logically suppose to be contained in any place; nor\r\nyet in respect of His being “Wisdom,” or “Truth,” or the\r\n“Life,” or “Righteousness,” or “Sanctification,” or “Redemption:”\r\nfor all these properties do not require space to\r\nbe able to act or to operate, but each one of them is to be\r\nunderstood as meaning those individuals who participate in\r\nHis virtue and working.</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-344"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6181411fe4bc804f556cca261ad07bb62ec836f7f6ab83a189143e601d72c168","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. i. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1034","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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