{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">13. But the interpretation is “spiritual,” when one is able\r\nto show of what heavenly things the Jews “according to\r\nthe flesh” served as an example and a shadow, and of what\r\nfuture blessings the law contains a shadow. And, generally,\r\nwe must investigate, according to the apostolic promise, “the\r\nwisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained\r\nbefore the world for the glory” of the just, which “none of\r\nthe princes of this world knew.”<a id=\"r915\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f915\"><sup>[915]</sup></a> And the same apostle\r\nsays somewhere, after referring to certain events mentioned\r\nas occurring in Exodus and Numbers, “that these things\r\nhappened to them figuratively, but that they were written on\r\nour account, on whom the ends of the world are come.”<a id=\"r916\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f916\"><sup>[916]</sup></a>\r\nAnd he gives an opportunity for ascertaining of what things\r\nthese were patterns, when he says: “For they drank of the\r\nspiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.”<a id=\"r917\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f917\"><sup>[917]</sup></a>\r\nAnd in another epistle, when sketching the various matters\r\nrelating to the tabernacle, he used the words: “Thou shalt\r\nmake everything according to the pattern showed thee in the\r\nmount.”<a id=\"r918\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f918\"><sup>[918]</sup></a> Moreover, in the Epistle to the Galatians, as if\r\nupbraiding those who think that they read the law, and yet\r\ndo not understand it, judging that those do not understand it\r\nwho do not reflect that allegories are contained under what\r\nis written, he says: “Tell me, ye that desire to be under\r\nthe law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, Abraham\r\nhad two sons; the one by the bond maid, the other by the\r\nfree woman. But he who was by the bond maid was born\r\naccording to the flesh; but he of the free woman was by\r\npromise. Which things are an allegory:<a id=\"r919\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f919\"><sup>[919]</sup></a> for these are the two\r\ncovenants,” and so on. Now we must carefully observe each\r\nword employed by him. He says: “Ye who desire to be\r\nunder the law,” not “Ye that are under the law;” and, “Do\r\nye not <i>hear</i> the law?”—“hearing” being understood to mean\r\n“<i>comprehending</i>” and “<i>knowing</i>.” And in the Epistle to the\r\nColossians, briefly abridging the meaning of the whole legislation,\r\nhe says: “Let no man therefore judge you in meat,\r\nand in drink, or in respect of a festival, or of a new moon, or\r\nof Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come.”<a id=\"r920\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f920\"><sup>[920]</sup></a> Moreover,\r\nin the Epistle to the Hebrews, discoursing of those\r\nwho belong to the circumcision, he writes: “who serve for\r\nan ensample and shadow of heavenly things.”<a id=\"r921\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f921\"><sup>[921]</sup></a> Now it is\r\nprobable that, from these illustrations, those will entertain no\r\ndoubt with respect to the five books of Moses, who have once\r\ngiven in their adhesion to the apostle, as divinely inspired;<a id=\"r922\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f922\"><sup>[922]</sup></a>\r\nbut do you wish to know, with regard to the rest of the history,\r\nif it also happened as a pattern? We must note, then, the\r\nexpression in the Epistle to the Romans, “I have left to\r\nmyself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to\r\nBaal,”<a id=\"r923\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f923\"><sup>[923]</sup></a> quoted from the third book of Kings, which Paul\r\nhas understood as equivalent [in meaning] to those who are\r\nIsraelites according to election, because not only were the\r\nGentiles benefited by the advent of Christ, but also certain\r\nof the race of God.<a id=\"r924\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f924\"><sup>[924]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-313"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"df6b8aec69dacb5381b72c5e68e80f440cb86c2e19a5eef760847e4f64a37799","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. xi. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f923","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. 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