{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Although Jesus was only a single individual, He was nevertheless\r\nmore things than one, according to the different standpoint\r\nfrom which He might be regarded;<a id=\"r181\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f181\"><sup>[181]</sup></a> nor was He seen in\r\nthe same way by all who beheld Him. Now, that He was more\r\nthings than one, according to the varying point of view, is clear\r\nfrom this statement, “I am the way, and the truth, and the\r\nlife;” and from this, “I am the bread;” and this, “I am the\r\ndoor,” and innumerable others. And that when seen He did\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_67\">67</span>not appear in like fashion to all those who saw Him, but\r\naccording to their several ability to receive Him, will be clear\r\nto those who notice why, at the time when He was about to\r\nbe transfigured on the high mountain, He did not admit all\r\nHis apostles [to this sight], but only Peter, and James, and\r\nJohn, because they alone were capable of beholding His glory\r\non that occasion, and of observing the glorified appearance of\r\nMoses and Elijah, and of listening to their conversation, and to\r\nthe voice from the heavenly cloud. I am of opinion, too, that\r\nbefore He ascended the mountain where His disciples came to\r\nHim alone, and where He taught them the beatitudes, when\r\nHe was somewhere in the lower part of the mountain, and\r\nwhen, as it became late, He healed those who were brought to\r\nHim, freeing them from all sickness and disease, He did not\r\nappear the same person to the sick, and to those who needed\r\nHis healing aid, as to those who were able by reason of their\r\nstrength to go up the mountain along with Him. Nay, even\r\nwhen He interpreted privately to His own disciples the parables\r\nwhich were delivered to the multitudes without, from whom the\r\nexplanation was withheld, as they who heard them explained\r\nwere endowed with higher organs of hearing than they who heard\r\nthem without explanation, so was it altogether the same with\r\nthe eyes of their soul, and, I think, also with those of their body.<a id=\"r182\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f182\"><sup>[182]</sup></a>\r\nAnd the following statement shows that He had not always the\r\nsame appearance, viz. that Judas, when about to betray Him,\r\nsaid to the multitudes who were setting out with him, as not\r\nbeing acquainted with Him, “Whomsoever I shall kiss, the same\r\nis he.”<a id=\"r183\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f183\"><sup>[183]</sup></a> And I think that the Saviour Himself indicates the\r\nsame thing by the words: “I was daily with you, teaching in\r\nthe temple, and ye laid no hold on me.”<a id=\"r184\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f184\"><sup>[184]</sup></a> Entertaining, then,\r\nsuch exalted views regarding Jesus, not only with respect to\r\nthe Deity within, and which was hidden from the view of the\r\nmultitude, but with respect to the transfiguration of His body,\r\nwhich took place when and to whom He would, we say, that\r\nbefore Jesus had “put off the governments and powers,”<a id=\"r185\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f185\"><sup>[185]</sup></a> and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_68\">68</span>while as yet He was not dead unto sin, all men were capable\r\nof seeing Him; but that, when He had “put off the governments\r\nand powers,” and had no longer anything which was\r\ncapable of being seen by the multitude, all who had formerly\r\nseen Him were not now able to behold Him. And therefore,\r\nsparing them, He did not show Himself to all after His resurrection\r\nfrom the dead.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-111"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bdc472bc1c93a8802e038fd7f1eb32c0e568cd948d4116a6c86da65bb428edf1","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. 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