{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. Certain persons, then, refusing the labour of thinking,\r\nand adopting a superficial view of the letter of the law, and\r\nyielding rather in some measure to the indulgence of their\r\nown desires and lusts, being disciples of the letter alone, are\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_146\">146</span>of opinion that the fulfilment of the promises of the future\r\nare to be looked for in bodily pleasure and luxury; and\r\ntherefore they especially desire to have again, after the\r\nresurrection, such bodily structures<a id=\"r331\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f331\"><sup>[331]</sup></a> as may never be without\r\nthe power of eating, and drinking, and performing all the\r\nfunctions of flesh and blood, not following the opinion of\r\nthe Apostle Paul regarding the resurrection of a spiritual\r\nbody. And consequently they say, that after the resurrection\r\nthere will be marriages, and the begetting of children,\r\nimagining to themselves that the earthly city of Jerusalem is\r\nto be rebuilt, its foundations laid in precious stones, and its\r\nwalls constructed of jasper, and its battlements of crystal;\r\nthat it is to have a wall composed of many precious stones,\r\nas jasper, and sapphire, and chalcedony, and emerald, and\r\nsardonyx, and onyx, and chrysolite, and chrysoprase, and\r\njacinth, and amethyst. Moreover, they think that the natives\r\nof other countries are to be given them as the ministers of\r\ntheir pleasures, whom they are to employ either as tillers of\r\nthe field or builders of walls, and by whom their ruined and\r\nfallen city is again to be raised up; and they think that they\r\nare to receive the wealth of the nations to live on, and that\r\nthey will have control over their riches; that even the camels\r\nof Midian and Kedar will come, and bring to them gold, and\r\nincense, and precious stones. And these views they think\r\nto establish on the authority of the prophets by those promises\r\nwhich are written regarding Jerusalem; and by those\r\npassages also where it is said, that they who serve the Lord\r\nshall eat and drink, but that sinners shall hunger and thirst;\r\nthat the righteous shall be joyful, but that sorrow shall possess\r\nthe wicked. And from the New Testament also they quote\r\nthe saying of the Saviour, in which He makes a promise to\r\nHis disciples concerning the joy of wine, saying, “Henceforth\r\nI shall not drink of this cup, until I drink it with you\r\nnew in my Father’s kingdom.”<a id=\"r332\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f332\"><sup>[332]</sup></a> They add, moreover, that\r\ndeclaration, in which the Saviour calls those blessed who\r\nnow hunger and thirst,<a id=\"r333\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f333\"><sup>[333]</sup></a> promising them that they shall be\r\nsatisfied; and many other scriptural illustrations are adduced\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_147\">147</span>by them, the meaning of which they do not perceive is to be\r\ntaken figuratively. Then, again, agreeably to the form of\r\nthings in this life, and according to the gradations of the\r\ndignities or ranks in this world, or the greatness of their\r\npowers, they think they are to be kings and princes, like\r\nthose earthly monarchs who now exist; chiefly, as it appears,\r\non account of that expression in the Gospel: “Have thou\r\npower over five cities.”<a id=\"r334\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f334\"><sup>[334]</sup></a> And to speak shortly, according to\r\nthe manner of things in this life in all similar matters, do\r\nthey desire the fulfilment of all things looked for in the promises,\r\nviz. that what now is should exist again. Such are\r\nthe views of those who, while believing in Christ, understand\r\nthe divine Scriptures in a sort of Jewish sense, drawing\r\nfrom them nothing worthy of the divine promises.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. 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Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f334","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f334\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r334\">334</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> Luke <abbr title=\"nineteen\">xix.</abbr> 19 and 17.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f334","text_sha256":"2220f089f1783b2cdc79b1e7b10effed2e78be8eccdb9ddbd1ef0d33f1a9a75f","verified":false,"work_id":null}