{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">I thought it right to quote these few instances from a much\r\nlarger number of passages, in which our sacred writers express\r\ntheir ideas regarding God, in order to show that, to those who\r\nhave eyes to behold the venerable character of Scripture, the\r\nsacred writings of the prophets contain things more worthy of\r\nreverence than those sayings of Plato which Celsus admires.\r\nNow the declaration of Plato, quoted by Celsus, runs as follows:\r\n“All things are around the King of all, and all things\r\nexist for his sake, and he is the cause of all good things.\r\nWith things of the second rank he is second, and with those\r\nof the third rank he is third. The human soul, accordingly,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_357\">357</span>is eager to learn what these things are, looking to such things\r\nas are kindred to itself, none of which is perfect. But as\r\nregards the King and those things which I mentioned, there is\r\nnothing which resembles them.”<a id=\"r1132\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1132\"><sup>[1132]</sup></a> I might have mentioned,\r\nmoreover, what is said of those beings which are called seraphim\r\nby the Hebrews, and described in Isaiah,<a id=\"r1133\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1133\"><sup>[1133]</sup></a> who cover the face\r\nand feet of God, and of those called cherubim, whom Ezekiel<a id=\"r1134\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1134\"><sup>[1134]</sup></a>\r\nhas described, and the postures of these, and of the manner in\r\nwhich God is said to be borne upon the cherubim. But since\r\nthey are mentioned in a very mysterious manner, on account\r\nof the unworthy and the indecent, who are unable to enter into\r\nthe great thoughts and venerable nature of theology, I have\r\nnot deemed it becoming to discourse of them in this treatise.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-411"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d21e8c400dd700602b0f9a71f3b6cf558f00c9424f2a9b41b81d2f0859aa186b","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-f1132","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":"f1132","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1132\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1132\">1132</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> Plato, <i>Epist.</i> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> ad Dionys.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1132","text_sha256":"eb740f3d2c3c7f9e9e001f2b43c2fdf39267ff499a661003de1a593f509bbba8","verified":false,"work_id":null}