{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. Now, if there be any one who would here oppose either\r\nthe authority or credibility of our Scriptures,<a id=\"r728\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f728\"><sup>[728]</sup></a> we would ask\r\nof him whether he asserts that God can, or cannot, comprehend\r\nall things? To assert that He cannot, would manifestly\r\nbe an act of impiety. If then he answer, as he must,\r\nthat God comprehends all things, it follows from the very\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_255\">255</span>fact of their being capable of comprehension, that they are\r\nunderstood to have a beginning and an end, seeing that which\r\nis altogether without any beginning cannot be at all comprehended.\r\nFor however far understanding may extend, so\r\nfar is the faculty of comprehending illimitably withdrawn\r\nand removed when there is held to be no beginning.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER V. THAT THE WORLD TOOK ITS BEGINNING IN TIME."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-267"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"989f634c07bd7a88b55ca5f99077599519b791e320c549e57594aee0b7c0d69c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f728","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":"f728","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f728\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r728\">728</a>. </span><span lang=\"la\">Auctoritate Scripturæ nostræ, vel fidei.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f728","text_sha256":"e349c1b021e0db2a10d0805fa0f11536b451c41a1ada17f0a459e5d4c76276a9","verified":false,"work_id":null}