{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Let us see, then, briefly what Holy Scripture has to say regarding\r\ngood and evil, and what answer we are to return to the\r\nquestions, “How is it that God created evil?” and, “How\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_396\">396</span>is He incapable of persuading and admonishing men?” Now,\r\naccording to Holy Scripture, properly speaking, virtues and\r\nvirtuous actions are good, as, properly speaking, the reverse of\r\nthese are evil. We shall be satisfied with quoting on the present\r\noccasion some verses from the 34th Psalm, to the following\r\neffect: “They that seek the Lord shall not want any good\r\nthing. Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you\r\nthe fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth life, and\r\nloveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue\r\nfrom evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil,\r\nand do good.”<a id=\"r1295\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1295\"><sup>[1295]</sup></a> Now, the injunctions to “depart from evil, and\r\nto do good,” do not refer either to <i>corporeal</i> evils or <i>corporeal</i>\r\nblessings, as they are termed by some, nor to external things at\r\nall, but to blessings and evils of a <i>spiritual</i> kind; since he who\r\ndeparts from such evils, and performs such virtuous actions,\r\nwill, as one who desires the true life, come to the enjoyment\r\nof it; and as one loving to see “good days,” in which the word\r\nof righteousness will be the Sun, he will see them, God taking\r\nhim away from this “present evil world,”<a id=\"r1296\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1296\"><sup>[1296]</sup></a> and from those evil\r\ndays concerning which Paul said: “Redeeming the time, because\r\nthe days are evil.”<a id=\"r1297\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1297\"><sup>[1297]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-449"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"46a1d7081d4c494932344144a416462b2a6be2631db9a177e9e98cf191e10d79","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":34,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxxiv. 10-14","verse":10,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1295","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":"f1295","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1295\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1295\">1295</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-four\">xxxiv.</abbr> 10-14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1295","text_sha256":"44f0281dfbd0a9116e6958a6e2eeddc16ee2fa64b131befac60dd6d697ed7405","verified":false,"work_id":null}