{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">4. Now, if this be the case, it seems to me that this very\r\ndecay and falling away of the understanding is not the same\r\nin all, but that this conversion into a soul is carried to a greater\r\nor less degree in different instances, and that certain understandings\r\nretain something even of their former vigour, and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_125\">125</span>others again either nothing or a very small amount. Whence\r\nsome are found from the very commencement of their lives\r\nto be of more active intellect, others again of a slower habit\r\nof mind, and some are born wholly obtuse, and altogether\r\nincapable of instruction. Our statement, however, that the\r\nunderstanding is converted into a soul, or whatever else seems\r\nto have such a meaning, the reader must carefully consider\r\nand settle for himself, as these views are not to be regarded\r\nas advanced by us in a dogmatic manner, but simply as\r\nopinions, treated in the style of investigation and discussion.\r\nLet the reader take this also into consideration, that it is\r\nobserved with regard to the soul of the Saviour, that of those\r\nthings which are written in the Gospel, some are ascribed to\r\nit under the name of soul, and others under that of spirit.\r\nFor when it wishes to indicate any suffering or perturbation\r\naffecting Him, it indicates it under the name of soul; as when\r\nit says, “Now is my soul troubled;”<a id=\"r298\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f298\"><sup>[298]</sup></a> and, “My soul is sorrowful,\r\neven unto death;”<a id=\"r299\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f299\"><sup>[299]</sup></a> and, “No man taketh my soul<a id=\"r300\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f300\"><sup>[300]</sup></a> from\r\nme, but I lay it down of myself.”<a id=\"r301\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f301\"><sup>[301]</sup></a> Into the hands of His\r\nFather He commends not His soul, but His spirit; and when\r\nHe says that the flesh is weak, He does not say that the soul\r\nis willing, but the spirit: whence it appears that the soul\r\nis something intermediate between the weak flesh and the\r\nwilling spirit.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VIII. ON THE SOUL (ANIMA)."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-168"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"090d700fdd0e267a3c1a28fc998662a694adc50bd3739a977fb58cf858ccba1e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":26,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxvi. 38","verse":38,"verse_end":38}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f299","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":"f299","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f299\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r299\">299</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-six\">xxvi.</abbr> 38.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f299","text_sha256":"b1b40bb503c9f03416f166bcea6af98a55e37b9b0044862397530e67188c1cd5","verified":false,"work_id":null}