{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">5. With respect, however, to the following being ranked\r\namong the works of the flesh, viz. heresies, and envyings,\r\nand contentions, or other [vices], they so understand the\r\npassage, that the mind, being rendered grosser in feeling,\r\nfrom its yielding itself to the passions of the body, and being\r\noppressed by the mass of its vices, and having no refined or\r\nspiritual feelings, is said to be made flesh, and derives its\r\nname from that in which it exhibits more vigour and force\r\nof will.<a id=\"r717\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f717\"><sup>[717]</sup></a> They also make this further inquiry, “Who will\r\nbe found, or who will be said to be, the creator of this evil\r\nsense, called the sense of the flesh?” Because they defend\r\nthe opinion that there is no other creator of soul and flesh\r\nthan God. And if we were to assert that the good God\r\ncreated anything in His own creation that was hostile to\r\nHimself, it would appear to be a manifest absurdity. If,\r\nthen, it is written, that “carnal wisdom is enmity against\r\nGod,”<a id=\"r718\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f718\"><sup>[718]</sup></a> and if this be declared to be a result of creation, God\r\nHimself will appear to have formed a nature hostile to Himself,\r\nwhich cannot be subject to Him nor to His law, as if it\r\nwere [supposed to be] an animal of which such qualities are\r\npredicated. And if this view be admitted, in what respect\r\nwill it appear to differ from that of those who maintain that\r\nsouls of different natures are created, which, according to\r\ntheir natures,<a id=\"r719\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f719\"><sup>[719]</sup></a> are destined either to be lost or saved? But\r\nthis is an opinion of the heretics alone, who, not being able\r\nto maintain the justice of God on grounds of piety, compose\r\nimpious inventions of this kind. And now we have brought\r\nforward to the best of our ability, in the person of each of\r\nthe parties, what might be advanced by way of argument\r\nregarding the several views, and let the reader choose out of\r\nthem for himself that which he thinks ought to be preferred.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER IV. ON HUMAN TEMPTATIONS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-264"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4b7aa0890f567b0aed6407eab7f654e5908bd9d8aa47a1c65891af1c6127b654","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f719","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f719","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f719\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r719\">719</a>. </span><span lang=\"la\">Naturaliter.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f719","text_sha256":"beaa89e274f9c8a1a93c314d0ac28a833bc8bdeba865852f5698bc6386fada74","verified":false,"work_id":null}