{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">6. Into this condition, then, we are to suppose that all\r\nthis bodily substance of ours will be brought, when all things\r\nshall be re-established in a state of unity, and when God\r\nshall be all in all. And this result must be understood as\r\nbeing brought about, not suddenly, but slowly and gradually,\r\nseeing that the process of amendment and correction will\r\ntake place imperceptibly in the individual instances during\r\nthe lapse of countless and unmeasured ages, some outstripping\r\nothers, and tending by a swifter course towards perfection,<a id=\"r762\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f762\"><sup>[762]</sup></a>\r\nwhile others again follow close at hand, and some again a\r\nlong way behind; and thus, through the numerous and uncounted\r\norders of progressive beings who are being reconciled\r\nto God from a state of enmity, the last enemy is finally\r\nreached, who is called death, so that he also may be destroyed,\r\nand no longer be an enemy. When, therefore, all\r\nrational souls shall have been restored to a condition of this\r\nkind, then the nature of this body of ours will undergo a\r\nchange into the glory of a spiritual body. For as we see it\r\nnot to be the case with rational natures, that some of them\r\nhave lived in a condition of degradation owing to their sins,\r\nwhile others have been called to a state of happiness on\r\naccount of their merits; but as we see those same souls who\r\nhad formerly been sinful, assisted, after their conversion and\r\nreconciliation to God, to a state of happiness; so also are we\r\nto consider, with respect to the nature of the body, that the\r\none which we now make use of in a state of meanness, and\r\ncorruption, and weakness, is not a different body from that\r\nwhich we shall possess in incorruption, and in power, and\r\nin glory; but that the same body, when it has cast away\r\nthe infirmities in which it is now entangled, shall be transmuted\r\ninto a condition of glory, being rendered spiritual,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_270\">270</span>so that what was a vessel of dishonour may, when cleansed,\r\nbecome a vessel unto honour, and an abode of blessedness.\r\nAnd in this condition, also, we are to believe, that\r\nby the will of the Creator it will abide for ever without any\r\nchange, as is confirmed by the declaration of the apostle,\r\nwhen he says, “We have a house, not made with hands,\r\neternal in the heavens.” For the faith of the church does\r\nnot admit the view of certain Grecian philosophers, that\r\nthere is besides the body, composed of four elements, another\r\nfifth body, which is different in all its parts, and diverse from\r\nthis our present body; since neither out of sacred Scripture\r\ncan any produce the slightest suspicion of evidence for such\r\nan opinion, nor can any rational inference from things allow\r\nthe reception of it, especially when the holy apostle manifestly\r\ndeclares, that it is not new bodies which are given to\r\nthose who rise from the dead, but that they receive those\r\nidentical ones which they had possessed when living, transformed\r\nfrom an inferior into a better condition. For his\r\nwords are: “It is sown an animal body, it will rise a spiritual\r\nbody: it is sown in corruption, it will arise in incorruption:\r\nit is sown in weakness, it will arise in power: it is sown in\r\ndishonour, it will arise in glory.”<a id=\"r763\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f763\"><sup>[763]</sup></a> As, therefore, there is a\r\nkind of advance in man, so that from being first an animal\r\nbeing, and not understanding what belongs to the Spirit of\r\nGod, he reaches by means of instruction the stage of being\r\nmade a spiritual being, and of judging all things, while he\r\nhimself is judged by no one; so also, with respect to the\r\nstate of the body, we are to hold that this very body which\r\nnow, on account of its service to the soul, is styled an animal\r\nbody, will, by means of a certain progress, when the soul,\r\nunited to God, shall have been made one spirit with Him (the\r\nbody even then ministering, as it were, to the spirit), attain\r\nto a spiritual condition and quality, especially since, as we\r\nhave often pointed out, bodily nature was so formed by the\r\nCreator, as to pass easily into whatever condition He should\r\nwish, or the nature of the case demand.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER VI. 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