{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Whatever, therefore, we have predicated of the wisdom of\r\nGod, will be appropriately applied and understood of the Son\r\nof God, in virtue of His being the Life, and the Word, and\r\nthe Truth, and the Resurrection: for all these titles are\r\nderived from His power and operations, and in none of them\r\nis there the slightest ground for understanding anything of a\r\ncorporeal nature which might seem to denote either size, or\r\nform, or colour; for those children of men which appear\r\namong us, or those descendants of other living beings, correspond\r\nto the seed of those by whom they were begotten,\r\nor derive from those mothers, in whose wombs they are\r\nformed and nourished, whatever that is, which they bring\r\ninto this life, and carry with them when they are born.<a id=\"r50\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f50\"><sup>[50]</sup></a> But\r\nit is monstrous and unlawful to compare God the Father, in\r\nthe generation of His only-begotten Son, and in the substance<a id=\"r51\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f51\"><sup>[51]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_22\">22</span>of the same, to any man or other living thing engaged\r\nin such an act; for we must of necessity hold that there is\r\nsomething exceptional and worthy of God which does not\r\nadmit of any comparison at all, not merely in things, but\r\nwhich cannot even be conceived by thought or discovered\r\nby perception, so that a human mind should be able to apprehend\r\nhow the unbegotten God is made the Father of the\r\nonly-begotten Son. Because His generation is as eternal\r\nand everlasting as the brilliancy which is produced from the\r\nsun. For it is not by receiving the<a id=\"r52\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f52\"><sup>[52]</sup></a> breath of life that He\r\nis made a Son, by <i>any outward act</i>, but by His own nature.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER II. ON CHRIST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-79"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a2cd09a6960b37746a2b18d74ad3be4aa80f0ebca58d51e03411671fe43ae36a","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f50","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":"f50","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f50\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r50\">50</a>. </span><span lang=\"la\">“Quoniam hi qui videntur apud nos hominum filii, vel ceterorum\r\nanimalium, semini eorum a quibus seminati sunt respondent, vel carum\r\nquarum in utero formantur ac nutriuntur, habent ex his quidquid illud\r\nest quod in lucem hanc assumunt, ac deferunt processuri.”</span> Probably the\r\nlast two words should be <span lang=\"la\">“deferunt processuris”</span>—“and hand it over to\r\nthose who are destined to come forth from them,” <i>i.e.</i> to their descendants.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f50","text_sha256":"11722924b91064401154d3c35d249f96ff2b270ad87c3639f0715eaddb3205fc","verified":false,"work_id":null}