{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. Perhaps something of this kind is shadowed forth in what\r\nis written in Exodus from the mouth of God, that the children\r\nof Israel were commanded to ask from their neighbours,\r\nand those who dwelt with them, vessels of silver and gold,\r\nand raiment, in order that, by spoiling the Egyptians, they\r\nmight have material for the preparation of the things which\r\npertained to the service of God. For from the things which\r\nthe children of Israel took from the Egyptians the vessels in\r\nthe holy of holies were made,—the ark with its lid, and the\r\ncherubim, and the mercy-seat, and the golden coffer, where\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_389\">389</span>was the manna, the angels’ bread. These things were probably\r\nmade from the best of the Egyptian gold. An inferior\r\nkind would be used for the solid golden candlestick near the\r\ninner veil, and its branches, and the golden table on which\r\nwere the pieces of shewbread, and the golden censer between\r\nthem. And if there was a third and fourth quality of gold,\r\nfrom it would be made the holy vessels; and the other things\r\nwould be made of Egyptian silver. For when the children\r\nof Israel dwelt in Egypt, they gained this from their dwelling\r\nthere, that they had no lack of such precious material for the\r\nutensils of the service of God. And of the Egyptian raiment\r\nwere probably made all those things which, as the Scripture\r\nmentions, needed sewed and embroidered work, sewed with\r\nthe wisdom of God, the one to the other, that the veils might\r\nbe made, and the inner and the outer courts. And why\r\nshould I go on, in this untimely digression, to set forth how\r\nuseful to the children of Israel were the things brought from\r\nEgypt, which the Egyptians had not put to a proper use, but\r\nwhich the Hebrews, guided by the wisdom of God, used for\r\nGod’s service? Now the sacred Scripture is wont to represent\r\nas an evil the going down from the land of the children of\r\nIsrael into Egypt, indicating that certain persons get harm\r\nfrom sojourning among the Egyptians, that is to say, from\r\nmeddling with the knowledge of this world, after they have\r\nsubscribed to the law of God, and the Israelitish service of\r\nHim. Ader<a id=\"r1117\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1117\"><sup>[1117]</sup></a> at least, the Idumæan, so long as he was in the\r\nland of Israel, and had not tasted the bread of the Egyptians,\r\nmade no idols. It was when he fled from the wise Solomon,\r\nand went down into Egypt, as it were flying from the wisdom\r\nof God, and was made a kinsman of Pharaoh by marrying\r\nhis wife’s sister, and begetting a child, who was brought\r\nup with the children of Pharaoh, that he did this. Wherefore,\r\nalthough he did return to the land of Israel, he returned only\r\nto divide the people of God, and to make them say to the\r\ngolden calf, “These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought\r\nthee up from the land of Egypt.” And I may tell you from\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_390\">390</span>my experience, that not many take from Egypt only the\r\nuseful, and go away and use it for the service of God; while\r\nAder the Idumæan has many brethren. These are they\r\nwho, from their Greek studies, produce heretical notions, and\r\nset them up, like the golden calf, in Bethel, which signifies\r\n“God’s house.” In these words also there seems to me an\r\nindication that they have set up their own imaginations in\r\nthe Scriptures, where the word of God dwells, which is called\r\nin a figure Bethel. The other figure, the word says, was set\r\nup in <abbr title=\"Daniel\">Dan.</abbr> Now the borders of Dan are the most extreme,\r\nand nearest the borders of the Gentiles, as is clear from what\r\nis written in Joshua, the son of Nun. Now some of the\r\ndevices of these brethren of Ader, as we call them, are also\r\nvery near the borders of the Gentiles.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","LETTERS.","A LETTER FROM ORIGEN TO GREGORY."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-391"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"144cc1b100c939018b8d977f7b166428ac4ca4999aa8dfd494186ddf0851637b","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1117","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":"f1117","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1117\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1117\">1117</a>. </span>Origen evidently confounds Hadad the Edomite, of 1 Kings <abbr title=\"twelve\">xii.</abbr> 14,\r\nwith Jeroboam.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1117","text_sha256":"c16d80e43359eb217fd0f16fae2bcd2fafc68de5cc218942fdf0eba0441673a1","verified":false,"work_id":null}