{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Referring to the passage in the <i>Phœdon</i> of Plato, Celsus\r\nsays: “It is not easy for every one to understand the meaning\r\nof Plato’s words, when he says that on account of our weakness\r\nand slowness we are unable to reach the highest region of the\r\nair; but that if our nature were capable of so sublime a contemplation,\r\nwe would then be able to understand that that is\r\nthe true heaven, and that the true light.” As Celsus has\r\ndeferred to another opportunity the explanation of Plato’s idea,\r\nwe also think that it does not fall within our purpose at present\r\nto enter into any full description of that holy and good\r\nland, and of the city of God which is in it; but reserve the\r\nconsideration of it for our Commentary on the Prophets, having\r\nalready in part, according to our power, treated of the city of\r\nGod in our remarks on the forty-sixth and forty-eighth Psalms.\r\nThe writings of Moses and the prophets—the most ancient of\r\nall books—teach us that all things here on earth which are in\r\ncommon use among men, have other things corresponding to\r\nthem in name which are alone real. Thus, for instance, there\r\nis the true light, and another heaven beyond the firmament,\r\nand a Sun of righteousness other than the sun we see. In a\r\nword, to distinguish those things from the objects of sense,\r\nwhich have no true reality, they say of God that “His works\r\nare truth;”<a id=\"r1478\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1478\"><sup>[1478]</sup></a> thus making a distinction between the works of\r\nGod and the works of God’s hands, which latter are of an\r\ninferior sort. Accordingly, God in Isaiah complains of men,\r\nthat “they regard not the works of the Lord, nor consider the\r\noperation of His hands.”<a id=\"r1479\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1479\"><sup>[1479]</sup></a> But enough on this point.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XXXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-508"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a119d54b5373c7516916b0f1f7e73769284cfbd93b4f3e388b92c462c6d3292c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. v. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1479","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":"f1479","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1479\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1479\">1479</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 12.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1479","text_sha256":"9e228c44783f3ad4dfb29f04ca9a951e6488b903b6c320297cb548f5946232e7","verified":false,"work_id":null}