{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But since he has represented those whom he regards as\r\nworms, viz. the Christians, as saying that “God, having\r\nabandoned the heavenly regions, and despising this great earth,\r\ntakes up His abode amongst us alone, and to us alone makes\r\nHis announcements, and ceases not His messages and inquiries\r\nas to how we may become His associates for ever,” we have to\r\nanswer that he attributes to us words which we never uttered,\r\nseeing we both read and know that God loves all existing\r\nthings, and loathes<a id=\"r571\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f571\"><sup>[571]</sup></a> nothing which He has made, for He would\r\nnot have created anything in hatred. We have, moreover, read\r\nthe declaration: “And Thou sparest all things, because they\r\nare Thine, O lover of souls. For Thine incorruptible Spirit\r\nis in all. And therefore those also who have fallen away for\r\na little time Thou rebukest, and admonishest, reminding them\r\nof their sins.”<a id=\"r572\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f572\"><sup>[572]</sup></a> How can we assert that “God, leaving the\r\nregions of heaven, and the whole world, and despising this\r\ngreat earth, takes up His abode amongst us only,” when we\r\nhave found that all thoughtful persons must say in their\r\nprayers, that “the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord,”<a id=\"r573\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f573\"><sup>[573]</sup></a>\r\nand that “the mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh;”<a id=\"r574\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f574\"><sup>[574]</sup></a> and\r\nthat God, being good, “maketh His sun to arise upon the evil\r\nand the good, and sendeth His rain upon the just and the\r\nunjust;”<a id=\"r575\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f575\"><sup>[575]</sup></a> and that He encourages us to a similar course of\r\naction, in order that we may become His sons, and teaches us\r\nto extend the benefits which we enjoy, so far as in our power,\r\nto all men? For He Himself is said to be the Saviour of all\r\nmen, especially of them that believe;<a id=\"r576\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f576\"><sup>[576]</sup></a> and His Christ to be the\r\n“propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for\r\nthe sins of the whole world.”<a id=\"r577\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f577\"><sup>[577]</sup></a> And this, then, is our answer\r\nto the allegations of Celsus. Certain other statements, in\r\nkeeping with the character of the Jews, might be made by\r\nsome of that nation, but certainly not by the Christians, who\r\nhave been taught that “God commendeth His love towards us,\r\nin that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us;”<a id=\"r578\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f578\"><sup>[578]</sup></a> and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_189\">189</span>although “scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet peradventure\r\nfor a good man some would even dare to die.”<a id=\"r579\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f579\"><sup>[579]</sup></a>\r\nBut now is Jesus declared to have come for the sake of sinners\r\nin all parts of the world (that they may forsake their sin, and\r\nentrust themselves to God), being called also, agreeably to an\r\nancient custom of these Scriptures, the “Christ of God.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-247"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"038c09e809b5c3aedc91679ce56a896232625b10b2c094ca887b601412b0848d","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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