{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">19. After this there followed this point, that “to will and\r\nto do are of God.”<a id=\"r556\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f556\"><sup>[556]</sup></a> Our opponents maintain that if to will\r\nbe of God, and if to do be of Him, or if, whether we act or\r\ndesire well or ill, it be of God, then in that case we are not\r\npossessed of free-will. Now to this we have to answer, that\r\nthe words of the apostle do not say that to will evil is of God,\r\nor that to will good is of Him; nor that to do good or evil is\r\nof God; but his statement is a general one, that to will and to\r\ndo are of God. For as we have from God this very quality,\r\nthat we are men,<a id=\"r557\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f557\"><sup>[557]</sup></a> that we breathe, that we move; so also we\r\nhave from God [the faculty] by which we will, as if we were\r\nto say that our power of motion is from God,<a id=\"r558\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f558\"><sup>[558]</sup></a> or that the\r\nperforming of these duties by the individual members, and\r\ntheir movements, are from God. From which, certainly, I\r\ndo not understand this, that because the hand moves, <i>e.g.</i> to\r\npunish unjustly, or to commit an act of theft, the act is of\r\nGod, but only that the power of motion<a id=\"r559\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f559\"><sup>[559]</sup></a> is from God; while\r\nit is our duty to turn those movements, the power of executing\r\nwhich we have from God, either to purposes of good or\r\nevil. And so what the apostle says is, that we receive indeed\r\nthe power of volition, but that we misuse the will either to\r\ngood or evil desires. In a similar way, also, we must judge\r\nof results.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-234"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"10a3cb3666c694b7bb0ebc7cdd4eb280aeb5fa7549d46bea7a84382a0166212e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PHP","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Phil. ii. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f556","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":"f556","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f556\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r556\">556</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Philippians\">Phil.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f556","text_sha256":"65453f66cec36b710b3ffa0e19691b62c5e7a7a37e1d6513ae0d70f202188563","verified":false,"work_id":null}