{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">10. But since they say that they regard Him as a just\r\nGod, and we as one who is at the same time good and just,\r\nlet us consider how the good and just God could harden the\r\nheart of Pharaoh. See, then, whether, by an illustration\r\nused by the apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews, we are\r\nable to prove that by one operation<a id=\"r445\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f445\"><sup>[445]</sup></a> God has mercy upon\r\none man while He hardens another, although not intending to\r\nharden; but, [although] having a good purpose, hardening\r\nfollows as a result of the inherent principle of wickedness\r\nin such persons,<a id=\"r446\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f446\"><sup>[446]</sup></a> and so He is said to harden him who is\r\nhardened. “The earth,” he says, “which drinketh in the rain\r\nthat cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for\r\nthem for whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God;\r\nbut that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is\r\nnigh to cursing, whose end is to be burned.”<a id=\"r447\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f447\"><sup>[447]</sup></a> As respects\r\nthe rain, then, there is one operation; and there being one\r\noperation as regards the rain, the ground which is cultivated\r\nproduces fruit, while that which is neglected and is barren\r\nproduces thorns. Now, it might seem profane<a id=\"r448\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f448\"><sup>[448]</sup></a> for Him\r\nwho rains to say, “I produced the fruits, and the thorns that\r\nare in the earth;” and yet, although profane, it is true.\r\nFor, had rain not fallen, there would have been neither fruits\r\nnor thorns; but, having fallen at the proper time and in\r\nmoderation, both were produced. The ground, now, which\r\ndrank in the rain which often fell upon it, and yet produced\r\nthorns and briers, is rejected and nigh to cursing. The blessing,\r\nthen, of the rain descended even upon the inferior land;\r\nbut it, being neglected and uncultivated, yielded thorns and\r\nthistles. In the same way, therefore, the wonderful works\r\nalso done by God are, as it were, the rain; while the differing\r\npurposes are, as it were, the cultivated and neglected land,\r\nbeing [yet], like earth, of one nature.</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-216"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0b71e3e50996bb83b403fba7e6bfbf710a21f5588405542cc37b48f03f291aac","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. vi. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f447","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":"f447","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f447\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r447\">447</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Hebrews\">Heb.</abbr> <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> 7, 8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f447","text_sha256":"e36af2528e6a3972a2cb936433e4f7e40cf24679846c0e8c5ba42b3b106dd073","verified":false,"work_id":null}