{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Accordingly, if Celsus were to ask us how we think we\r\nknow God, and how we shall be saved by Him, we would\r\nanswer that the Word of God, which entered into those who\r\nseek Him, or who accept Him when He appears, is able to\r\nmake known and to reveal the Father, who was not seen [by\r\nany one] before the appearance of the Word. And who else is\r\nable to save and conduct the soul of man to the God of all\r\nthings, save God the Word, who, “being in the beginning\r\nwith God,” became flesh for the sake of those who had cleaved\r\nto the flesh, and had become as flesh, that He might be received\r\nby those who could not behold Him, inasmuch as He was the\r\nWord, and was with God, and was God? And discoursing\r\nin human form,<a id=\"r1374\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1374\"><sup>[1374]</sup></a> and announcing Himself as flesh, He calls to\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_411\">411</span>Himself those who are flesh, that He may in the first place\r\ncause them to be transformed according to the Word that was\r\nmade flesh, and afterwards may lead them upwards to behold\r\nHim as He was before He became flesh; so that they, receiving\r\nthe benefit, and ascending from their great introduction to\r\nHim, which was according to the flesh, say, “Even if we\r\nhave known Christ after the flesh, yet henceforth know we\r\nHim no more.” Therefore He became flesh, and having become\r\nflesh, “He tabernacled among us,” not dwelling without\r\nus; and after tabernacling and dwelling <i>within</i> us, He did not\r\ncontinue in the form in which He first presented Himself, but\r\ncaused us to ascend to the lofty mountain of His word, and\r\nshowed us His own glorious form, and the splendour of His\r\ngarments; and not His own form alone, but that also of the\r\nspiritual law, which is Moses, seen in glory along with Jesus.\r\nHe showed to us, moreover, all prophecy, which did not perish\r\neven after His incarnation, but was received up into heaven,\r\nand whose symbol was Elijah. And he who beheld these\r\nthings could say, “We beheld His glory, the glory as of the\r\nonly-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”<a id=\"r1375\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1375\"><sup>[1375]</sup></a> Celsus,\r\nthen, has exhibited considerable ignorance in the imaginary\r\nanswer to his question which he puts into our mouth, “How\r\nwe think we can know God? and how we know we shall be\r\nsaved by Him?” for our answer is what we have just stated.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-463"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"59455a5e8a1b1f02eef51bce954d84721b73c261315d7ff36d099081b17d3b71","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1375","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 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1375","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1375\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1375\">1375</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> John <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1375","text_sha256":"f7eacd45e53d85c579f190d4509ca79e5c40c5c8cf949bc8d7906bedeb3dd969","verified":false,"work_id":null}