{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">“Altogether absurd, and out of season,”<a id=\"r662\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f662\"><sup>[662]</sup></a> he continues, “is\r\nthe [account of the] begetting of children,” where, although he\r\nhas mentioned no names, it is evident that he is referring to the\r\nhistory of Abraham and Sarah. Cavilling also at the “conspiracies\r\nof the brothers,” he alludes either to the story of Cain\r\nplotting against Abel,<a id=\"r663\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f663\"><sup>[663]</sup></a> or, in addition, to that of Esau against\r\nJacob;<a id=\"r664\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f664\"><sup>[664]</sup></a> and [speaking] of “a father’s sorrow,” he probably\r\nrefers to that of Isaac on account of the absence of Jacob, and\r\nperhaps also to that of Jacob because of Joseph having been\r\nsold into Egypt. And when relating the “crafty procedure of\r\nmothers,” I suppose he means the conduct of Rebecca, who\r\ncontrived that the blessing of Isaac should descend, not upon\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_209\">209</span>Esau, but upon Jacob. Now if we assert that in all these cases\r\nGod interposed in a very marked degree,<a id=\"r665\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f665\"><sup>[665]</sup></a> what absurdity do we\r\ncommit, seeing we are persuaded that He never withdraws His\r\nprovidence<a id=\"r666\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f666\"><sup>[666]</sup></a> from those who devote themselves to Him in an\r\nhonourable and vigorous<a id=\"r667\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f667\"><sup>[667]</sup></a> life? He ridicules, moreover, the\r\nacquisition of property made by Jacob while living with Laban,\r\nnot understanding to what these words refer: “And those\r\nwhich had no spots were Laban’s, and those which were spotted\r\nwere Jacob’s;”<a id=\"r668\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f668\"><sup>[668]</sup></a> and he says that “God presented his sons with\r\nasses, and sheep, and camels,”<a id=\"r669\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f669\"><sup>[669]</sup></a> and did not see that “all these\r\nthings happened unto them for ensamples, and were written for\r\nour sake, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”<a id=\"r670\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f670\"><sup>[670]</sup></a> The\r\nvarying customs [prevailing among the different nations] becoming\r\nfamous,<a id=\"r671\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f671\"><sup>[671]</sup></a> are regulated by the word of God, being given\r\nas a possession to him who is figuratively termed Jacob. For\r\nthose who become converts to Christ from among the heathen,\r\nare indicated by the history of Laban and Jacob.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XLIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-264"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"94614e58154d95dbfc99cbc89b69a667669566e626fd7eb3587cb61b440a4241","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":30,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xxx. 42","verse":42,"verse_end":42}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f668","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":"f668","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f668\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r668\">668</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Genesis\">Gen.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty\">xxx.</abbr> 42 (<abbr title=\"Septuagint\">LXX.</abbr>). “The feebler were Laban’s, and the\r\nstronger Jacob’s” (<abbr title=\"Authorized Version\">Auth. Vers.</abbr>).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f668","text_sha256":"d676cf0e289080679c2e5b3ead7e1aa02df7b4cc7de6291564b5d086a60ee964","verified":false,"work_id":null}