{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus accordingly, as not understanding the doctrine relating\r\nto the Spirit of God (“for the natural man receiveth not the\r\nthings of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him;\r\nneither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned”<a id=\"r1392\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1392\"><sup>[1392]</sup></a>),\r\nweaves together [such a web] as pleases himself,<a id=\"r1393\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1393\"><sup>[1393]</sup></a> imagining\r\nthat we, in calling God a Spirit, differ in no respect in\r\nthis particular from the Stoics among the Greeks, who maintain\r\nthat “God is a Spirit, diffused through all things, and\r\ncontaining all things within Himself.” Now the superintendence\r\nand providence of God does extend through all things,\r\nbut not in the way that spirit does, according to the Stoics.\r\nProvidence indeed contains all things that are its objects, and\r\ncomprehends them all, but not as a containing body includes\r\nits contents, because they also are “body,”<a id=\"r1394\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1394\"><sup>[1394]</sup></a> but as a <i>divine</i>\r\npower does it comprehend what it contains. According to the\r\nphilosophers of the Porch, indeed, who assert that principles\r\nare “corporeal,” and who on that account make all things\r\nperishable, and who venture even to make the God of all things\r\ncapable of perishing, the very Word of God, who descends\r\neven to the lowest of mankind, would be—did it not appear to\r\nthem to be too gross an incongruity<a id=\"r1395\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1395\"><sup>[1395]</sup></a>—nothing else than a\r\n“corporeal” spirit; whereas, in our opinion,—who endeavour\r\nto demonstrate that the rational soul is superior to all “corporeal”\r\nnature, and that it is an invisible substance, and incorporeal,—God\r\nthe Word, by whom all things were made, who\r\ncame, in order that all things might be made by the Word,\r\nnot to men only, but to what are deemed the very lowest of\r\nthings, under the dominion of nature alone, would be no body.\r\nThe Stoics, then, may consign all things to destruction by fire;\r\nwe, however, know of no incorporeal substance that is destructible\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_415\">415</span>by fire, nor [do we believe] that the soul of man, or the substance\r\nof “angels,” or of “thrones,” or “dominions,” or\r\n“principalities,” or “powers,” can be dissolved by fire.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-466"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"74194596526d2775f1726f0c5bbc6fa09af0811183e681612f1a4394258c66cd","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-f1394","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":"f1394","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1394\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1394\">1394</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὐχ ὡς σῶμα δὲ περιέχον περιέχει, ὅτι καὶ σῶμα ἐστι τὸ περιεχόμενον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1394","text_sha256":"c5b22628d01e786df01ee0268facfc3bc00afa6de112df2d7f7be26bc8ea4a40","verified":false,"work_id":null}