{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Before proceeding to the next point, it may be well for us to\r\nsee whether we do not accept with approval the saying, “No\r\nman can serve two masters,” with the addition, “for either he\r\nwill hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the\r\none, and despise the other,” and further, “Ye cannot serve God\r\nand mammon.”<a id=\"r1564\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1564\"><sup>[1564]</sup></a> The defence of this passage will lead us to\r\na deeper and more searching inquiry into the meaning and\r\napplication of the words “gods” and “lords.” Divine Scripture\r\nteaches us that there is “a great Lord above all gods.”<a id=\"r1565\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1565\"><sup>[1565]</sup></a>\r\nAnd by this name “gods” we are not to understand the objects\r\nof heathen worship (for we know that “all the gods of the\r\nheathen are demons”<a id=\"r1566\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1566\"><sup>[1566]</sup></a>), but the gods mentioned by the prophets\r\nas forming an assembly, whom God “judges,” and to each of\r\nwhom He assigns his proper work. For “God standeth in the\r\nassembly of the gods: He judgeth among the gods.”<a id=\"r1567\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1567\"><sup>[1567]</sup></a> For\r\n“God is Lord of gods,” who by His Son “hath called the earth\r\nfrom the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.”<a id=\"r1568\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1568\"><sup>[1568]</sup></a> We\r\nare also commanded to “give thanks to the God of gods.”<a id=\"r1569\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1569\"><sup>[1569]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_494\">494</span>Moreover, we are taught that “God is not the God of the\r\ndead, but of the living.”<a id=\"r1570\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1570\"><sup>[1570]</sup></a> Nor are these the only passages to\r\nthis effect; but there are very many others.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter III."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-550"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"228cc63414c488eb0ca9bbdc7cb8176c748f53af6ca943938c89050d5b7f808b","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vi. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1564","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":"f1564","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1564\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1564\">1564</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> 24.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1564","text_sha256":"217c60b4d653f1a70aa02797895b8ff3ec2b5da4e478c79a8bd8b11c43ecabd8","verified":false,"work_id":null}