{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">4. And in the song in Deuteronomy,<a id=\"r800\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f800\"><sup>[800]</sup></a> also, it is prophetically\r\nmade known that, on account of the sins of the former\r\npeople,<a id=\"r801\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f801\"><sup>[801]</sup></a> there was to be an election of foolish nations, which\r\nhas been brought to pass by no other than by Jesus. “For\r\nthey,” He says, “moved me to jealousy with that which is\r\nnot God, they have provoked me to anger with their idols;\r\nand I will move them to jealousy with those which are not\r\na people, and will provoke them to anger with a foolish\r\nnation.”<a id=\"r802\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f802\"><sup>[802]</sup></a> Now it is possible to understand with all clearness\r\nhow the Hebrews, who are said to have moved God to\r\njealousy by that which is not God, and to have provoked\r\nHim to anger by their idols, were [themselves] aroused to\r\njealousy by that which was not a people—the foolish nation,\r\nnamely, which God chose by the advent of Jesus Christ and\r\nHis disciples. We see, indeed, “our calling, that not many\r\nwise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble\r\n(are called); but God hath chosen the foolish things of the\r\nworld to confound the wise; and base things, and things that\r\nare despised, hath God chosen, and things that are not, to\r\nbring to nought the things which formerly existed;”<a id=\"r803\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f803\"><sup>[803]</sup></a> and let\r\nnot the Israel according to the flesh, which is called by the\r\napostle “flesh,” boast in the presence of God.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-294"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"55e254496140bae6fbf2d684e59a8ce8eabe759300c9bb8ba2496354c09f0edd","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f801","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":"f801","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f801\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r801\">801</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τοῦ προτέρου λαοῦ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f801","text_sha256":"46a6cc3b1a669be8ef383e647472c303dd9e9f9b600b6ac21b047f786d2e90cd","verified":false,"work_id":null}