{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Now, to those who are capable of understanding him, the\r\napostle manifestly presents to view “things which are the\r\nobjects of perception,” calling them “things seen;” while he\r\nterms “unseen,” things which are the object of the understanding,\r\nand cognisable by it alone. He knows, also, that\r\nthings “seen” and visible are “temporal,” but that things\r\ncognisable by the mind, and “not seen,” are “eternal;” and\r\ndesiring to remain in the contemplation of these, and being\r\nassisted by his earnest longing for them, he deemed all affliction\r\nas “light” and as “nothing,” and during the season of\r\nafflictions and troubles was not at all bowed down by them, but\r\nby his contemplation of [divine] things deemed every calamity\r\na light thing, seeing we also have “a great High Priest,” who\r\nby the greatness of His power and understanding “has passed\r\nthrough the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God,” who has\r\npromised to all that have truly learned divine things, and have\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_359\">359</span>lived lives in harmony with them, to go before them to the\r\nthings that are supra-mundane; for His words are: “That\r\nwhere I go, ye may be also.”<a id=\"r1138\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1138\"><sup>[1138]</sup></a> And therefore we hope, after\r\nthe troubles and struggles which we suffer here, to reach the\r\nhighest heavens,<a id=\"r1139\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1139\"><sup>[1139]</sup></a> and receiving, agreeably to the teaching of\r\nJesus, the fountains of water that spring up unto eternal life,\r\nand being filled with the rivers of knowledge,<a id=\"r1140\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1140\"><sup>[1140]</sup></a> shall be united\r\nwith those waters that are said to be above the heavens, and\r\nwhich praise His name. And as many of us<a id=\"r1141\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1141\"><sup>[1141]</sup></a> as praise Him\r\nshall not be carried about by the revolution of the heaven, but\r\nshall be ever engaged in the contemplation of the invisible\r\nthings of God, which are no longer understood by us through\r\nthe things which He hath made from the creation of the world,\r\nbut seeing, as it was expressed by the true disciple of Jesus in\r\nthese words, “then face to face;”<a id=\"r1142\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1142\"><sup>[1142]</sup></a> and in these, “When that\r\nwhich is perfect is come, then that which is in part will be done\r\naway.”<a id=\"r1143\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1143\"><sup>[1143]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-413"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c81f2e2b720da583cdbab3c10a7a62499601f4c8c7d8c974b6dd9accaa5e3f09","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":14,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xiv. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1138","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":"f1138","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1138\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1138\">1138</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> John <abbr title=\"fourteen\">xiv.</abbr> 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1138","text_sha256":"e889d4d96a438d3a0c0b2f7dd1c74543c8afdd0690680797f773b1c78276b0ef","verified":false,"work_id":null}