{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In this investigation, the first point which clearly appears\r\nis, that the world in all its diversified and varying conditions\r\nis composed not only of rational and diviner natures, and of\r\na diversity of bodies, but of dumb animals, wild and tame\r\nbeasts, of birds, and of all things which live in the waters;<a id=\"r148\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f148\"><sup>[148]</sup></a>\r\nthen, secondly, of places, <i>i.e.</i> of the heaven or heavens, and\r\nof the earth or water, as well as of the air, which is intermediate,\r\nand which they term æther, and of everything\r\nwhich proceeds from the earth or is born in it. Seeing, then,<a id=\"r149\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f149\"><sup>[149]</sup></a>\r\nthere is so great a variety in the world, and so great a diversity\r\namong rational beings themselves, on account of which\r\nevery other variety and diversity also is supposed to have\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_73\">73</span>come into existence, what other cause than this ought to be\r\nassigned for the existence of the world, especially if we have\r\nregard to that end by means of which it was shown in the preceding\r\nbook that all things are to be restored to their original\r\ncondition? And if this should seem to be logically stated,\r\nwhat other cause, as we have already said, are we to imagine\r\nfor so great a diversity in the world, save the diversity and\r\nvariety in the movements and declensions of those who fell\r\nfrom that primeval unity and harmony in which they were at\r\nfirst created by God, and who, being driven from that state\r\nof goodness, and drawn in various directions by the harassing\r\ninfluence of different motives and desires, have changed,\r\naccording to their different tendencies, the single and undivided\r\ngoodness of their nature into minds of various sorts?<a id=\"r150\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f150\"><sup>[150]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER I. ON THE WORLD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-128"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cb862506f2cf0eb8782159bf5d9f0759ef9e2af7531d82657bae28d87f18de3c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f149","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":"f149","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f149\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r149\">149</a>. </span>The original of this sentence is found at the close of the Emperor\r\nJustinian’s epistle to Menas, patriarch of Constantinople, and, literally\r\ntranslated, is as follows: “The world being so very varied, and containing\r\nso many different rational beings, what else ought we to say was the\r\ncause of its existence than the diversity of the falling away of those who\r\ndecline from unity (<span lang=\"grc\">τῆς ἑνάδος</span>) in different ways?”—<span class=\"sc\">Ruæus.</span> Lommatzsch\r\nadds a clause not contained in the note of the Benedictine editor:\r\n“and sometimes the soul selects the life that is in water” (<span lang=\"grc\">ἔνυδρον</span>).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f149","text_sha256":"df33bb13a14e60578ed780c8e968f00222a13a6401979e6b606840a6acd7d26b","verified":false,"work_id":null}