{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Moreover, as we have already said that for God to desire anything\r\nunbecoming Himself would be destructive of His existence\r\nas Deity, we will add that if man, agreeably to the wickedness of\r\nhis nature, should desire anything that is abominable,<a id=\"r930\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f930\"><sup>[930]</sup></a> God cannot\r\ngrant it. And now it is from no spirit of contention that we\r\nanswer the assertions of Celsus; but it is in the spirit of truth\r\nthat we investigate them, as assenting to his view that “He is\r\nthe God, not of inordinate desires, nor of error and disorder,\r\nbut of a nature just and upright,” because He is the source of\r\nall that is good. And that He is able to provide an eternal\r\nlife for the soul we acknowledge; and that He possesses not\r\nonly the “power,” but the “will.” In view, therefore, of these\r\nconsiderations, we are not at all distressed by the assertion of\r\nHeraclitus, adopted by Celsus, that “dead bodies are to be cast\r\nout as more worthless than dung;” and yet, with reference even\r\nto this, one might say that dung, indeed, ought to be cast out,\r\nwhile the dead bodies of men, on account of the soul by which\r\nthey were inhabited, especially if it had been virtuous, ought\r\nnot to be cast out. For, in harmony with those laws which are\r\nbased upon the principles of equity, bodies are deemed worthy\r\nof sepulture, with the honours accorded on such occasions, that\r\nno insult, so far as can be helped, may be offered to the soul\r\nwhich dwelt within, by casting forth the body (after the soul\r\nhas departed) like that of the animals. Let it not then be\r\nheld, contrary to reason, that it is the will of God to declare\r\nthat the grain of wheat is not immortal, but the stalk which\r\nsprings from it, while the body which is sown in corruption is\r\nnot, but that which is raised by Him in incorruption. But\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_293\">293</span>according to Celsus, God Himself is the reason of all things,\r\nwhile according to our view it is His Son, of whom we say in\r\nphilosophic language, “In the beginning was the Word, and\r\nthe Word was with God, and the Word was God;”<a id=\"r931\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f931\"><sup>[931]</sup></a> while in\r\nour judgment also, God cannot do anything which is contrary\r\nto reason, or contrary to Himself.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-351"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"82e7f2b32db9f7beee12964bc41036fc3c6c4631455a01eeffa21b4b380b4d1c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f931","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":"f931","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f931\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r931\">931</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> John <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f931","text_sha256":"029550f1451cfe9d0576eca78eeb9a5ad47cf8e66e18ec64e57d694cf2ead2ef","verified":false,"work_id":null}