{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And with respect to His having descended among men, He\r\nwas “previously in the form of God;”<a id=\"r532\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f532\"><sup>[532]</sup></a> and through benevolence,\r\ndivested Himself [of His glory], that He might be\r\ncapable of being received by men. But He did not, I imagine,\r\nundergo any change from “good to evil,” for “He did no\r\n<i>sin</i>;”<a id=\"r533\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f533\"><sup>[533]</sup></a> nor from “virtue to vice,” for “He knew no <i>sin</i>.”<a id=\"r534\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f534\"><sup>[534]</sup></a>\r\nNor did He pass from “happiness to misery,” but He humbled\r\nHimself, and nevertheless was blessed, even when His humiliation\r\nwas undergone in order to benefit our race. Nor was there\r\nany change in Him from “best to worst,” for how can goodness\r\nand benevolence be of “the worst?” Is it befitting to\r\nsay of the physician, who looks on dreadful sights and handles\r\nunsightly objects in order to cure the sufferers, that he passes\r\nfrom “good to evil,” or from “virtue to vice,” or from “happiness\r\nto misery?” And yet the physician, in looking on\r\ndreadful sights and handling unsightly objects, does not wholly\r\nescape the possibility of being involved in the same fate. But\r\nHe who heals the wounds of our souls, through the word of\r\nGod that is in Him, is Himself incapable of admitting any\r\nwickedness. But if the immortal God—the Word—by assuming\r\na mortal body and a human soul, appears to Celsus to undergo\r\na change and transformation, let him learn that the Word, still\r\nremaining essentially the Word, suffers none of those things\r\nwhich are suffered by the body or the soul; but, condescending\r\noccasionally to [the weakness of] him who is unable to look\r\nupon the splendours and brilliancy of Deity, He becomes as\r\nit were flesh, speaking with a literal voice, until he who has\r\nreceived Him in such a form is able, through being elevated in\r\nsome slight degree by the teaching of the Word, to gaze upon\r\nwhat is, so to speak, His real and pre-eminent appearance.<a id=\"r535\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f535\"><sup>[535]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-234"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"25c0381fd22f10727a8918c069a36aa244ac6f2731a749ae95ea3002ae8676cc","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-f535","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":"f535","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f535\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r535\">535</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">προηγουμένην.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f535","text_sha256":"76edb3c7a088c1eb987c6b3d5f9509880ef081b136a4400878c0abb37646fe8b","verified":false,"work_id":null}