{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">37. If any one, indeed, venture to ascribe essential corruption\r\nto him who was made after the image and likeness\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_355\">355</span>of God, then, in my opinion, this impious charge extends\r\neven to the Son of God Himself, for He is called in Scripture\r\nthe image of God.<a id=\"r1077\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1077\"><sup>[1077]</sup></a> Or he who holds this opinion would\r\ncertainly impugn the authority of Scripture, which says that\r\nman was made in the image of God; and in him are manifestly\r\nto be discovered traces of the divine image, not by any appearance\r\nof the bodily frame, which is corruptible, but by mental\r\nwisdom, by justice, moderation, virtue, wisdom, discipline; in\r\nfine, by the whole band of virtues, which are innate in the\r\nessence of God, and which may enter into man by diligence\r\nand imitation of God; as the Lord also intimates in the\r\nGospel, when He says, “Be ye therefore merciful, as your\r\nFather also is merciful;”<a id=\"r1078\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1078\"><sup>[1078]</sup></a> and, “Be ye perfect, even as your\r\nFather also is perfect.”<a id=\"r1079\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1079\"><sup>[1079]</sup></a> From which it is clearly shown\r\nthat all these virtues are perpetually in God, and that they\r\ncan never approach to or depart from Him, whereas by men\r\nthey are acquired only slowly, and one by one. And hence\r\nalso by these means they seem to have a kind of relationship\r\nwith God; and since God knows all things, and none of things\r\nintellectual in themselves can elude His notice<a id=\"r1080\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1080\"><sup>[1080]</sup></a> (for God the\r\nFather alone, and His only-begotten Son, and the Holy Spirit,\r\nnot only possess a knowledge of those things which they have\r\ncreated, but also of themselves), a rational understanding\r\nalso, advancing from small things to great, and from things\r\nvisible to things invisible, may attain to a more perfect\r\nknowledge. For it is placed in the body, and advances from\r\nsensible things themselves, which are corporeal, to things\r\nthat are intellectual. But lest our statement that things\r\nintellectual are not cognisable by the senses should appear\r\nunbecoming, we shall employ the instance of Solomon, who\r\nsays, “You will find also a divine sense;”<a id=\"r1081\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1081\"><sup>[1081]</sup></a> by which he\r\nshows that those things which are intellectual are to be\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_356\">356</span>sought out not by means of a bodily sense, but by a certain\r\nother which he calls “divine.” And with this sense must\r\nwe look on each of those rational beings which we have\r\nenumerated above; and with this sense are to be understood\r\nthose words which we speak, and those statements to be\r\nweighed which we commit to writing. For the divine nature\r\nknows even those thoughts which we revolve within us in\r\nsilence. And on those matters of which we have spoken, or\r\non the others which follow from them, according to the rule\r\nabove laid down, are our opinions to be formed.</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-357"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"119636f5b57161f7ccd4853a846648fb0558a18c28b6da34dcab53ee49854c07","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"COL","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Col. i. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15},{"book":"2CO","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. iv. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1077","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. 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