{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But after this investigation of his assertions, as if his object\r\nwere to swell his book by many words, he repeats, in different\r\nlanguage, the same charges which we have examined a little\r\nago, saying: “By far the most silly thing is the distribution of\r\nthe creation of the world over certain days, <i>before days existed</i>:\r\nfor, as the heaven was not yet created, nor the foundation of\r\nthe earth yet laid,<a id=\"r1330\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1330\"><sup>[1330]</sup></a> nor the sun yet revolving,<a id=\"r1331\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1331\"><sup>[1331]</sup></a> how could there\r\nbe <i>days</i>?” Now, what difference is there between these words\r\nand the following: “Moreover, taking and looking at these\r\nthings from the beginning, would it not be absurd in the first\r\nand greatest God to issue the command, Let this [first thing]\r\ncome into existence, and this second thing, and this [third];\r\nand after accomplishing so much on the first day, to do so much\r\nmore again on the second, and third, and fourth, and fifth, and\r\nsixth?” We answered to the best of our ability this objection\r\nto God’s “commanding this first, second, and third thing to be\r\ncreated,” when we quoted the words, “He said, and it was\r\ndone; He commanded, and all things stood fast;”<a id=\"r1332\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1332\"><sup>[1332]</sup></a> remarking\r\nthat the immediate<a id=\"r1333\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1333\"><sup>[1333]</sup></a> Creator, and, as it were, very Maker<a id=\"r1334\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1334\"><sup>[1334]</sup></a> of\r\nthe world was the Word, the Son of God; while the Father\r\nof the Word, by commanding His own Son—the Word—to\r\ncreate the world, is <i>primarily</i> Creator. And with regard to\r\nthe creation of the light upon the first day, and of the firmament\r\nupon the second, and of the gathering together of the\r\nwaters that are under the heaven into their several reservoirs<a id=\"r1335\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1335\"><sup>[1335]</sup></a>\r\non the third (the earth thus causing to sprout forth those\r\n[fruits] which are under the control of nature alone<a id=\"r1336\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1336\"><sup>[1336]</sup></a>), and of\r\nthe [great] lights and stars upon the fourth, and of aquatic<a id=\"r1337\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1337\"><sup>[1337]</sup></a>\r\nanimals upon the fifth, and of land animals and man upon the\r\nsixth, we have treated to the best of our ability in our notes\r\nupon Genesis, as well as in the foregoing pages, when we found\r\nfault with those who, taking the words in their <i>apparent</i> signification,\r\nsaid that the time of six days was occupied in the\r\ncreation of the world, and quoted the words: “These are the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_403\">403</span>generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were\r\ncreated, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the\r\nheavens.”<a id=\"r1338\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1338\"><sup>[1338]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-455"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"799a706fbe1a1298e6f83c8f7ea402b6536ae11bc074e0202e17f513bc8348e7","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1336","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":"f1336","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1336\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1336\">1336</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὰ ὑπὸ μόνης φύσεως διοικούμενα.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1336","text_sha256":"568e7a2b6a8f6531497c8aaa866db4895d75193e37a2c37d4ce31a781f6bee5d","verified":false,"work_id":null}