{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. But of all the marvellous and mighty acts related of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_107\">107</span>Him, this altogether surpasses human admiration, and is\r\nbeyond the power of mortal frailness to understand or feel,\r\nhow that mighty power of divine majesty, that very Word\r\nof the Father, and that very wisdom of God, in which were\r\ncreated all things, visible and invisible, can be believed to\r\nhave existed within the limits of that man who appeared in\r\nJudea; nay, that the Wisdom of God can have entered the\r\nwomb of a woman, and have been born an infant, and have\r\nuttered wailings like the cries of little children! And that\r\nafterwards it should be related that He was greatly troubled\r\nin death, saying, as He Himself declared, “My soul is sorrowful,\r\neven unto death;”<a id=\"r226\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f226\"><sup>[226]</sup></a> and that at the last He was\r\nbrought to that death which is accounted the most shameful\r\namong men, although He rose again on the third day. Since,\r\nthen, we see in Him some things so human that they appear to\r\ndiffer in no respect from the common frailty of mortals, and\r\nsome things so divine that they can appropriately belong to\r\nnothing else than to the primal and ineffable nature of Deity,\r\nthe narrowness of human understanding can find no outlet;\r\nbut, overcome with the amazement of a mighty admiration,\r\nknows not whither to withdraw, or what to take hold of, or\r\nwhither to turn. If it think of a God, it sees a mortal; if it\r\nthink of a man, it beholds Him returning from the grave,\r\nafter overthrowing the empire of death, laden with its spoils.\r\nAnd therefore the spectacle is to be contemplated with all\r\nfear and reverence, that the truth of both natures may be\r\nclearly shown to exist in one and the same Being; so that\r\nnothing unworthy or unbecoming may be perceived in that\r\ndivine and ineffable substance, nor yet those things which\r\nwere done be supposed to be the illusions of imaginary appearances.\r\nTo utter these things in human ears, and to explain\r\nthem in words, far surpasses the powers either of our rank, or\r\nof our intellect and language. I think that it surpasses the\r\npower even of the holy apostles; nay, the explanation of that\r\nmystery may perhaps be beyond the grasp of the entire creation\r\nof celestial powers. Regarding Him, then, we shall state, in\r\nthe fewest possible words, the contents of our creed rather\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_108\">108</span>than the assertions which human reason is wont to advance;\r\nand this from no spirit of rashness, but as called for by the\r\nnature of our arrangement, laying before you rather [what\r\nmay be termed] our suspicions than any clear affirmations.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VI. ON THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-153"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"090d700fdd0e267a3c1a28fc998662a694adc50bd3739a977fb58cf858ccba1e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":26,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxvi. 38","verse":38,"verse_end":38}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f226","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":"f226","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f226\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r226\">226</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-six\">xxvi.</abbr> 38.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f226","text_sha256":"b1b40bb503c9f03416f166bcea6af98a55e37b9b0044862397530e67188c1cd5","verified":false,"work_id":null}