{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">13. It is not without reason, then, that he who is abandoned,\r\nis abandoned to the divine judgment, and that God\r\nis long-suffering with certain sinners; but because it will\r\nbe for their advantage, with respect to the immortality of\r\nthe soul and the unending world,<a id=\"r486\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f486\"><sup>[486]</sup></a> that they be not quickly\r\nbrought<a id=\"r487\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f487\"><sup>[487]</sup></a> into a state of salvation, but be conducted to it\r\nmore slowly, after having experienced many evils. For as\r\nphysicians, who are able to cure a man quickly, when they\r\nsuspect that a hidden poison exists in the body, do the reverse\r\nof healing, making this more certain through their very desire\r\nto heal, deeming it better for a considerable time to retain the\r\npatient under inflammation and sickness, in order that he may\r\nrecover his health more surely, than to appear to produce a\r\nrapid recovery, and afterwards to cause a relapse, and [thus]\r\nthat hasty cure last only for a time; in the same way, God\r\nalso, who knows the secret things of the heart, and foresees\r\nfuture events, in His long-suffering, permits [certain events\r\nto occur], and by means of those things which happen from\r\nwithout extracts the secret evil, in order to cleanse him who\r\nthrough carelessness has received the seeds of sin, that having\r\nvomited them forth when they come to the surface, although\r\nhe may have been deeply involved in evils, he may afterwards\r\nobtain healing after his wickedness, and be renewed.<a id=\"r488\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f488\"><sup>[488]</sup></a> For\r\nGod governs souls not with reference, let me say, to the fifty<a id=\"r489\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f489\"><sup>[489]</sup></a>\r\nyears of the present life, but with reference to an illimitable<a id=\"r490\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f490\"><sup>[490]</sup></a>\r\nage: for He made the thinking principle immortal in its\r\nnature, and kindred to Himself; and the rational soul is not,\r\nas in this life, excluded from cure.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-222"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"db4b3e6da8cb15e2aaecae037e06be2d93f9038654dca1a3352d56423049e131","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f486","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":"f486","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f486\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r486\">486</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὸν ἄπειρον αἰῶνα.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f486","text_sha256":"5919a037b7f7c9b132aa771f1350e4c8d33b7b385ef2e179a61c99d694b769ad","verified":false,"work_id":null}