{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">4. That the perfection of his love and the sincerity of his\r\ndeserved affection<a id=\"r231\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f231\"><sup>[231]</sup></a> formed for it this inseparable union with\r\nGod, so that the assumption of that soul was not accidental,\r\nor the result of a personal preference, but was conferred as\r\nthe reward of its virtues, listen to the prophet addressing it\r\nthus: “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness:\r\ntherefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of\r\ngladness above thy fellows.”<a id=\"r232\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f232\"><sup>[232]</sup></a> As a reward for its love, then,\r\nit is anointed with the oil of gladness; <i>i.e.</i> the soul of Christ\r\nalong with the Word of God is made Christ. Because to be\r\nanointed with the oil of gladness means nothing else than to\r\nbe filled with the Holy Spirit. And when it is said “above\r\nthy fellows,” it is meant that the grace of the Spirit was not\r\ngiven to it as to the prophets, but that the essential fulness\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_110\">110</span>of the Word of God Himself was in it, according to the saying\r\nof the apostle, “In whom dwelt all the fulness of the\r\nGodhead bodily.”<a id=\"r233\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f233\"><sup>[233]</sup></a> Finally, on this account he has not only\r\nsaid, “Thou hast loved righteousness;” but he adds, “and\r\nThou hast hated wickedness.” For to have hated wickedness\r\nis what the Scripture says of Him, that “He did no sin,\r\nneither was any guile found in His mouth,”<a id=\"r234\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f234\"><sup>[234]</sup></a> and that “He\r\nwas tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.”<a id=\"r235\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f235\"><sup>[235]</sup></a> Nay,\r\nthe Lord Himself also said, “Which of you will convince\r\nme of sin?”<a id=\"r236\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f236\"><sup>[236]</sup></a> And again He says with reference to Himself,\r\n“Behold, the prince of this world cometh, and findeth nothing\r\nin me.”<a id=\"r237\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f237\"><sup>[237]</sup></a> All which [passages] show that in Him there was\r\nno sense of sin; and that the prophet might show more\r\nclearly that no sense of sin had ever entered into Him, he\r\nsays, “Before the boy could have knowledge to call upon\r\nfather or mother, He turned away from wickedness.”<a id=\"r238\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f238\"><sup>[238]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VI. ON THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-155"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"91f59d99386a9531f4bbe8b887246212983267a29a8452b8369427ba44249d94","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":45,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xlv. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f232","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":"f232","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f232\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r232\">232</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"forty-five\">xlv.</abbr> 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f232","text_sha256":"a1159dddbf2d695fa2db9bc7d165ebef4e1fb2aa640f7970ba28614967963b25","verified":false,"work_id":null}