{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">10. But lest this difficulty perhaps should be supposed\r\nto exist only in the language of the prophets, seeing the\r\nprophetic style is allowed by all to abound in figures and\r\nenigmas, what do we find when we come to the Gospels?\r\nIs there not hidden there also an inner, namely a divine\r\nsense, which is revealed by that grace alone which he had\r\nreceived who said, “But we have the mind of Christ, that\r\nwe might know the things freely given to us by God.\r\nWhich things also we speak, not in the words which man’s\r\nwisdom teaches, but which the Spirit teacheth?”<a id=\"r879\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f879\"><sup>[879]</sup></a> And if\r\none now were to read the revelations which were made to\r\nJohn, how amazed would he not be that there should be\r\ncontained within them so great an amount of hidden, ineffable\r\nmysteries,<a id=\"r880\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f880\"><sup>[880]</sup></a> in which it is clearly understood, even by\r\nthose who cannot comprehend <i>what</i> is concealed, that <i>something</i>\r\ncertainly <i>is</i> concealed. And yet are not the epistles\r\nof the apostles, which seem to some to be plainer, filled with\r\nmeanings so profound, that by means of them, as by some\r\nsmall receptacle,<a id=\"r881\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f881\"><sup>[881]</sup></a> the clearness of incalculable light<a id=\"r882\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f882\"><sup>[882]</sup></a> appears\r\nto be poured into those who are capable of understanding the\r\nmeaning of divine wisdom? And therefore, because this is\r\nthe case, and because there are many who go wrong in this\r\nlife, I do not consider that it is easy to pronounce, without\r\ndanger, that any one knows or understands those things,\r\nwhich, in order to be opened up, need the key of knowledge;\r\nwhich key, the Saviour declared, lay with those who were\r\nskilled in the law. And here, although it is a digression, I\r\nthink we should inquire of those who assert that before the\r\nadvent of the Saviour there was no truth among those who\r\nwere engaged in the study of the law, how it could be said\r\nby our Lord Jesus Christ that the keys of knowledge were\r\nwith them, who had the books of the prophets and of the\r\nlaw in their hands. For thus did He speak: “Woe unto\r\nyou, ye teachers of the law, who have taken away the key\r\nof knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them who\r\nwished to enter in ye hindered.”<a id=\"r883\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f883\"><sup>[883]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-306"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d006df440666b29f151551223d0a745699c17fed64fc0a56a47be6ae28177b54","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f882","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":"f882","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f882\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r882\">882</a>. </span><span lang=\"la\">Immensæ lucis claritas.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f882","text_sha256":"4c20709afa5285d6086d0e71990b11595f53bea8e253e1eefc482a4f52360241","verified":false,"work_id":null}