{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">According to the foregoing, then, the one kind of wisdom is\r\nhuman, and the other divine. Now the “human” wisdom is\r\nthat which is termed by us the wisdom of the “world,” which\r\nis “foolishness with God;” whereas the “divine”—being different\r\nfrom the “human,” because it is “divine”—comes,\r\nthrough the grace of God who bestows it, to those who have\r\nevinced their capacity for receiving it, and especially to those\r\nwho, from knowing the difference between either kind of wisdom,\r\nsay, in their prayers to God, “Even if one among the\r\nsons of men be perfect, while the wisdom is wanting that comes\r\nfrom Thee, he shall be accounted as nothing.”<a id=\"r1097\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1097\"><sup>[1097]</sup></a> We maintain,\r\nindeed, that “human” wisdom is an exercise for the soul, but\r\nthat “divine” wisdom is the “end,” being also termed the\r\n“strong” meat of the soul by him who has said that “strong\r\nmeat belongeth to them that are perfect,<a id=\"r1098\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1098\"><sup>[1098]</sup></a> even those who by\r\nreason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good\r\nand evil.”<a id=\"r1099\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1099\"><sup>[1099]</sup></a> This opinion, moreover, is truly an ancient one,\r\nits antiquity not being referred back, as Celsus thinks, merely\r\nto Heraclitus and Plato. For before these individuals lived,\r\nthe prophets distinguished between the two kinds of wisdom.\r\nIt is sufficient for the present to quote from the words of David\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_351\">351</span>what he says regarding the man who is wise, according to divine\r\nwisdom, that “he will not see corruption when he beholds wise\r\nmen dying.”<a id=\"r1100\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1100\"><sup>[1100]</sup></a> Divine wisdom, accordingly, being different\r\nfrom faith, is the “first” of the so-called “charismata” of\r\nGod; and the “second” after it—in the estimation of those\r\nwho know how to distinguish such things accurately—is what\r\nis called “knowledge;”<a id=\"r1101\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1101\"><sup>[1101]</sup></a> and the “third”—seeing that even\r\nthe more simple class of men who adhere to the service of God,\r\nso far as they can, must be saved—is faith. And therefore\r\nPaul says: “To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom,\r\nto another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another\r\nfaith by the same Spirit.”<a id=\"r1102\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1102\"><sup>[1102]</sup></a> And therefore it is no ordinary\r\nindividuals whom you will find to have participated in the\r\n“divine” wisdom, but the more excellent and distinguished\r\namong those who have given in their adherence to Christianity;\r\nfor it is not “to the most ignorant, or servile, or most\r\nuninstructed of mankind,” that one would discourse upon the\r\ntopics relating to the divine wisdom.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-406"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fbc639f0d7556338cb1d16e6e0cdb55eb2f61aa02b6d96667b81fe9e51883c55","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xii. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1102","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":"f1102","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1102\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1102\">1102</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twelve\">xii.</abbr> 8, 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1102","text_sha256":"5e2ba8ddbe995b60f676639cc15e05c6ea05edf656bd2d669b1b8dc13a074a5b","verified":false,"work_id":null}