{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">9. In this way, accordingly, we are to suppose that at the\r\nconsummation and restoration of all things, those who make\r\na gradual advance, and who ascend [in the scale of improvement],\r\nwill arrive in due measure and order at that land, and\r\nat that training which is contained in it, where they may be\r\nprepared for those better institutions to which no addition\r\ncan be made. For, after His agents and servants, the Lord\r\nChrist, who is King of all, will Himself assume the kingdom;\r\n<i>i.e.</i>, after instruction in the holy virtues, He will Himself\r\ninstruct those who are capable of receiving Him in respect of\r\nHis being wisdom, reigning in them until He has subjected\r\nthem to the Father, who has subdued all things to Himself,\r\n<i>i.e.</i> that when they shall have been made capable of receiving\r\nGod, God may be to them all in all. Then accordingly,\r\nas a necessary consequence, bodily nature will obtain that\r\nhighest condition<a id=\"r768\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f768\"><sup>[768]</sup></a> to which nothing more can be added.\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_273\">273</span>Having discussed, up to this point, the quality of bodily\r\nnature, or of spiritual body, we leave it to the choice of the\r\nreader to determine what he shall consider best. And here\r\nwe may bring the third book to a conclusion.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER VI. ON THE END OF THE WORLD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-282"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c8b6ac6b07351d76d21dbc941e69284479f2f8749266ab42a3674f7433ab01cf","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f768","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":"f768","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f768\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r768\">768</a>. </span>Jerome (Epistle to Avitus, <abbr title=\"number\">No.</abbr> 94) says that Origen, “after a most\r\nlengthened discussion, in which he asserts that all bodily nature is to be\r\nchanged into attenuated and spiritual bodies, and that all substance is\r\nto be converted into one body of perfect purity, and more brilliant than\r\nany splendour (<span lang=\"la\"><i>mundissimum et omni splendore purius</i></span>), and such as\r\nthe human mind cannot now conceive,” adds at the last, “And God\r\nwill be ‘all in all,’ so that the whole of bodily nature may be reduced\r\ninto that substance which is better than all others, into the divine, viz.,\r\nthan which none is better.” From which, since it seems to follow that\r\nGod possesses a body, although of extreme tenuity (<span lang=\"la\"><i>licet tenuissimum</i></span>),\r\nRufinus has either suppressed this view, or altered the meaning of\r\nOrigen’s words (Ruæus).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f768","text_sha256":"afc86a6f4f890a5922818e5541f7a723fe553c45b8e3aa0dede0a59bdd3fb0cd","verified":false,"work_id":null}