{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, when the philosophers of the Porch, who\r\nassert that the virtue of God and man is the same, maintain\r\nthat the God who is over all things is not happier than <i>their</i>\r\nwise man, but that the happiness of both is equal, Celsus\r\nneither ridicules nor scoffs at their opinion. If, however, Holy\r\nScripture says that the perfect man is joined to and made one\r\nwith the Very Word by means of virtue, so that we infer that\r\nthe soul of Jesus is not separated from the first-born of all\r\ncreation, he laughs at Jesus being called “Son of God,” not\r\nobserving what is said of Him with a secret and mystical signification\r\nin the Holy Scriptures. But that we may win over to\r\nthe reception of our views those who are willing to accept the\r\ninferences which flow from our doctrines, and to be benefited\r\nthereby, we say that the Holy Scriptures declare the body of\r\nChrist, animated by the Son of God, to be the whole church\r\nof God, and the members of this body—considered as a whole—to\r\nconsist of those who are believers; since, as a soul vivifies\r\nand moves the body, which of itself has not the natural power\r\nof motion like a living being, so the Word, arousing and moving\r\nthe whole body, the church, to befitting action, awakens, moreover,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_390\">390</span>each individual member belonging to the church, so\r\nthat they do nothing apart from the Word. Since all this,\r\nthen, follows by a train of reasoning not to be depreciated, where\r\nis the difficulty in maintaining that, as the <i>soul</i> of Jesus is\r\njoined in a perfect and inconceivable manner with the very\r\nWord, so the person of Jesus, generally speaking,<a id=\"r1269\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1269\"><sup>[1269]</sup></a> is not separated\r\nfrom the only-begotten and first-born of all creation, and\r\nis not a different being from Him? But enough here on this\r\nsubject.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XLVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-443"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7e9c9cd0d9b832d644a967c36bc7334022f36757554f7911ade5eb11cbd16f96","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-f1269","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":"f1269","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1269\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1269\">1269</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἁπαξαπλῶς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1269","text_sha256":"0dcdffa4ce419860e237b93f31fc837cf0f340e803d1fb6786039438a1e77f68","verified":false,"work_id":null}