{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">It seems to me also that that fancy of Plato, that those stones\r\nwhich we call precious stones derive their lustre from a reflection,\r\nas it were, of the stones in that better land, is taken from the\r\nwords of Isaiah in describing the city of God, “I will make\r\nthy battlements of jasper, thy stones shall be crystal, and thy\r\nborders of precious stones;”<a id=\"r1476\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1476\"><sup>[1476]</sup></a> and, “I will lay thy foundations\r\nwith sapphires.” Those who hold in greatest reverence the\r\nteaching of Plato, explain this myth of his as an allegory.\r\nAnd the prophecies from which, as we conjecture, Plato has\r\nborrowed, will be explained by those who, leading a godly life\r\nlike that of the prophets, devote all their time to the study\r\nof the sacred Scriptures, to those who are qualified to learn\r\nby purity of life, and their desire to advance in divine knowledge.\r\nFor our part, our purpose has been simply to say that\r\nwhat we affirm of that sacred land has not been taken from\r\nPlato or any of the Greeks, but that they rather—living as\r\nthey did not only after Moses, who was the oldest, but even\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_453\">453</span>after most of the prophets—borrowed from them, and in so\r\ndoing either misunderstood their obscure intimations on such\r\nsubjects, or else endeavoured, in their allusions to the better\r\nland, to imitate those portions of Scripture which had fallen\r\ninto their hands. Haggai expressly makes a distinction between\r\nthe earth and the dry land, meaning by the latter the\r\nland in which we live. He says: “Yet once, and I will shake\r\nthe heavens and the earth, and the dry land, and the sea.”<a id=\"r1477\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1477\"><sup>[1477]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XXX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-507"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"84113042f899810140468dee4490200bba5f35bfdec64d246035e94e01adbc53","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1477","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 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1477","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1477\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1477\">1477</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Haggai\">Hagg.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1477","text_sha256":"16d303177154b2d8d06a58ba0cb8ccb0ce1339f2791bd1d4dbbdb4de11856519","verified":false,"work_id":null}