{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. It would be tedious to collect out of all the passages in\r\nthe Gospels the proofs by which the God of the law and of\r\nthe Gospels is shown to be one and the same. Let us touch\r\nbriefly upon the Acts of the Apostles,<a id=\"r188\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f188\"><sup>[188]</sup></a> where Stephen and\r\nthe other apostles address their prayers to that God who made\r\nheaven and earth, and who spoke by the mouth of His holy\r\nprophets, calling Him the “God of Abraham, of Isaac, and\r\nof Jacob;” the God who “brought forth His people out of\r\nthe land of Egypt.” Which expressions undoubtedly clearly\r\ndirect our understandings to faith in the Creator, and implant\r\nan affection for Him in those who have learned piously and\r\nfaithfully thus to think of Him; according to the words of\r\nthe Saviour Himself, who, when He was asked which was the\r\ngreatest commandment in the law, replied, “Thou shalt love\r\nthe Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,\r\nand with all thy mind. And the second is like unto it,\r\nThou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” And to these\r\nHe added: “On these two commandments hang all the law\r\nand the prophets.”<a id=\"r189\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f189\"><sup>[189]</sup></a> How is it, then, that He commends to\r\nhim whom He was instructing, and was leading to enter on\r\nthe office of a disciple, this commandment above all others,\r\nby which undoubtedly love was to be kindled in him towards\r\nthe God of that law, inasmuch as such had been declared by\r\nthe law in these very words? But let it be granted, notwithstanding\r\nall these most evident proofs, that it is of some other\r\nunknown God that the Saviour says, “Thou shalt love the\r\nLord thy God with all thy heart,” etc. etc. How, in that\r\ncase, if the law and the prophets are, as they say, from the\r\nCreator, <i>i.e.</i> from another God than He whom He calls good,\r\nshall that appear to be logically said which He subjoins, viz.\r\nthat “on these two commandments hang the law and the\r\nprophets?” For how shall that which is strange and foreign\r\nto God depend upon Him? And when Paul says, “I thank\r\nmy God, whom I serve in my spirit from my forefathers\r\nwith pure conscience,”<a id=\"r190\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f190\"><sup>[190]</sup></a> he clearly shows that he came not\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_94\">94</span>to some new God, but to Christ. For what other forefathers\r\nof Paul can be intended, except those of whom he says, “Are\r\nthey Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I.”<a id=\"r191\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f191\"><sup>[191]</sup></a>\r\nNay, will not the very preface of his Epistle to the Romans\r\nclearly show the same thing to those who know how to understand\r\nthe letters of Paul, viz. what God he preaches? For\r\nhis words are: “Paul, the servant of Jesus Christ, called to\r\nbe an apostle, set apart to the gospel of God, which He had\r\npromised afore by His prophets in the holy Scriptures concerning\r\nHis Son, who was made of the seed of David according\r\nto the flesh, and who was declared to be the Son of God with\r\npower, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection\r\nfrom the dead of Christ Jesus our Lord,”<a id=\"r192\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f192\"><sup>[192]</sup></a> etc. Moreover,\r\nalso the following, “Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of\r\nthe ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for\r\noxen? or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our\r\nsakes, no doubt, this is written, that he that plougheth\r\nshould plough in hope, and he that thresheth in hope of partaking\r\nof the fruits.”<a id=\"r193\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f193\"><sup>[193]</sup></a> By which he manifestly shows that\r\nGod, who gave the law on our account, <i>i.e.</i> on account of the\r\napostles, says, “Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox\r\nthat treadeth out the corn;” whose care was not for oxen, but\r\nfor the apostles, who were preaching the gospel of Christ.\r\nIn other passages also, Paul, embracing the promises of the\r\nlaw, says, “Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the\r\nfirst commandment with promise; that it may be well with\r\nthee, and that thy days may be long upon the land, the good\r\nland, which the Lord thy God will give thee.”<a id=\"r194\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f194\"><sup>[194]</sup></a> By which\r\nhe undoubtedly makes known that the law, and the God of\r\nthe law, and His promises, are pleasing to him.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER IV. THE GOD OF THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS, AND THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, IS THE SAME GOD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-144"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d81695cbb063b813f23c60b0d6fe22ba2b1e54ac448ee32ac1f6a7691d359d78","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2CO","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. xi. 22","verse":22,"verse_end":22}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f191","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. 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