{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">19. Besides these, there is the passage, “Both to will and\r\nto do are of God.”<a id=\"r560\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f560\"><sup>[560]</sup></a> And some assert that, if to will be of\r\nGod, and to do be of God, and if, whether we will evil or do\r\nevil, these [movements] come to us from God, then, if so, we\r\nare not possessed of free-will. But again, on the other hand,\r\nwhen we will better things, and do things that are more excellent,<a id=\"r561\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f561\"><sup>[561]</sup></a>\r\nseeing that willing and doing are from God, it is not\r\nwe who have done the more excellent things, but we only\r\nappeared [to perform them], while it was God that bestowed\r\nthem;<a id=\"r562\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f562\"><sup>[562]</sup></a> so that even in this respect we do not possess free-will.\r\nNow to this we have to answer, that the language of\r\nthe apostle does not assert that to will evil is of God, or to\r\nwill good is of Him (and similarly with respect to doing\r\nbetter and worse); but that to will in a general<a id=\"r563\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f563\"><sup>[563]</sup></a> way, and\r\nto run in a general way, [are from Him]. For as we have\r\nfrom God [the property] of being living things and human\r\nbeings, so also have we that of willing generally, and, so to\r\nspeak, of motion in general. And as, possessing [the property]\r\nof life and of motion, and of moving, <i>e.g.</i> these members,\r\nthe hands or the feet, we could not rightly say<a id=\"r564\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f564\"><sup>[564]</sup></a> that\r\nwe had from God this species of motion,<a id=\"r565\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f565\"><sup>[565]</sup></a> whereby we moved\r\nto strike, or destroy, or take away another’s goods, but that\r\nwe had received from Him simply the generic<a id=\"r566\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f566\"><sup>[566]</sup></a> power of\r\nmotion, which we employed to better or worse purposes; so\r\nwe have obtained from God [the power] of acting, in respect\r\nof our being living things, and [the power] to will from the\r\nCreator,<a id=\"r567\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f567\"><sup>[567]</sup></a> while we employ the power of will, as well as that\r\nof action, for the noblest objects, or the opposite.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-235"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6672af030fe143e51a50b495b6ba6b1c770fbbf5f4299ae655700750bfaf3a5c","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f567","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":"f567","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f567\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r567\">567</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">δημιουργοῦ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f567","text_sha256":"3724a97fc43cb4c43912af9c99ee4139519874b2a605e7776cf54afbc73c74f5","verified":false,"work_id":null}