{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">On the present occasion, however, it is not our object to\r\nenter into an explanation of the subject of intelligent and\r\nsensible beings,<a id=\"r1280\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1280\"><sup>[1280]</sup></a> nor of the manner in which the different kinds<a id=\"r1281\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1281\"><sup>[1281]</sup></a>\r\nof days were allotted to both sorts, nor to investigate the details\r\nwhich belong to the subject, for we should need whole treatises\r\nfor the exposition of the Mosaic cosmogony; and that work we\r\nhad already performed, to the best of our ability, a considerable\r\ntime before the commencement of this answer to Celsus,\r\nwhen we discussed with such measure of capacity as we then\r\npossessed the question of the Mosaic cosmogony of the six\r\ndays. We must keep in mind, however, that the Word promises\r\nto the righteous through the mouth of Isaiah, that days\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_393\">393</span>will come<a id=\"r1282\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1282\"><sup>[1282]</sup></a> when not the sun, but the Lord Himself, will be to\r\nthem an everlasting light, and God will be their glory.<a id=\"r1283\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1283\"><sup>[1283]</sup></a> And\r\nit is from misunderstanding, I think, some pestilent heresy\r\nwhich gave an erroneous interpretation to the words, “Let there\r\nbe light,” as if they were the expression of a <i>wish</i><a id=\"r1284\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1284\"><sup>[1284]</sup></a> merely on\r\nthe part of the Creator, that Celsus made the remark: “The\r\nCreator did not borrow light from above, like those persons\r\nwho kindle their lamps at those of their neighbours.” Misunderstanding,\r\nmoreover, another impious heresy, he has said:\r\n“If, indeed, there did exist an accursed god opposed to the great\r\nGod, who did this contrary to his approval, why did he lend\r\nhim the light?” So far are we from offering a defence of\r\nsuch puerilities, that we desire, on the contrary, distinctly to\r\narraign the statements of these heretics as erroneous, and to\r\nundertake to refute, not those of their opinions with which we\r\nare <i>unacquainted</i>, as Celsus does, but those of which we have\r\nattained an accurate knowledge, derived in part from the statements\r\nof their own adherents, and partly from a careful perusal\r\nof their writings.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-446"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e931c95e4b1a4fe8cb4052724702ff09e8e948f216e809ea3cd10b12a200b603","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1280","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":"f1280","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1280\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1280\">1280</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">περὶ νοητῶν καὶ αἰσθητῶν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1280","text_sha256":"d3429f1309ba8de8ec0bf44ed5b83a66478ccbec416fdbd32e73374d23fc7b77","verified":false,"work_id":null}