{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">6. We are therefore to suppose that the saints will remain\r\nthere until they recognise the twofold mode of government\r\nin those things which are performed in the air. And when\r\nI say “twofold mode,” I mean this: When we were upon\r\nearth, we saw either animals or trees, and beheld the differences\r\namong them, and also the very great diversity among\r\nmen; but although we saw these things, we did not understand\r\nthe reason of them; and this only was suggested to us\r\nfrom the visible diversity, that we should examine and inquire\r\nupon what principle these things were either created or\r\ndiversely arranged. And a zeal or desire for knowledge of\r\nthis kind being conceived by us on earth, the full understanding\r\nand comprehension of it will be granted after death, if\r\nindeed the result should follow according to our expectations.\r\nWhen, therefore, we shall have fully comprehended its nature,\r\nwe shall understand in a twofold manner what we saw on\r\nearth. Some such view, then, must we hold regarding this\r\nabode in the air. I think, therefore, that all the saints who\r\ndepart from this life will remain in some place situated on\r\nthe earth, which holy Scripture calls paradise, as in some\r\nplace of instruction, and, so to speak, class-room or school of\r\nsouls, in which they are to be instructed regarding all the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_152\">152</span>things which they had seen on earth, and are to receive also\r\nsome information respecting things that are to follow in the\r\nfuture, as even when in this life they had obtained in some\r\ndegree indications of future events, although “through a\r\nglass darkly,” all of which are revealed more clearly and distinctly\r\nto the saints in their proper time and place. If any\r\none indeed be pure in heart, and holy in mind, and more\r\npractised in perception, he will, by making more rapid progress,\r\nquickly ascend to a place in the air, and reach the\r\nkingdom of heaven, through those mansions, so to speak, in\r\nthe various places which the Greeks have termed spheres, <i>i.e.</i>\r\nglobes, but which holy Scripture has called heavens; in each\r\nof which he will first see clearly what is done there, and in\r\nthe second place, will discover the reason why things are so\r\ndone: and thus he will in order pass through all gradations,\r\nfollowing Him who hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the\r\nSon of God, who said, “I will that where I am, these may be\r\nalso.”<a id=\"r345\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f345\"><sup>[345]</sup></a> And of this diversity of places He speaks, when He\r\nsays, “In my Father’s house are many mansions.” He Himself\r\nis everywhere, and passes swiftly through all things; nor\r\nare we any longer to understand Him as existing in those\r\nnarrow limits in which He was once confined for our sakes,\r\n<i>i.e.</i> not in that circumscribed body which He occupied on\r\nearth, when dwelling among men, according to which He\r\nmight be considered as enclosed in some one place.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. ON COUNTER PROMISES."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-193"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"30c8bf89379c42ff747eb81a85a9f70aa012c0e9668d085abad781eabe44a3a6","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":14,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xiv. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f345","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":"f345","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f345\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r345\">345</a>. </span>John <abbr title=\"fourteen\">xiv.</abbr> 2.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f345","text_sha256":"732d140dc419aaeb5e83681288583b889a17c82354326d1aad0eb72470e664cc","verified":false,"work_id":null}