{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">5. The last enemy, moreover, who is called death, is said\r\non this account to be destroyed, that there may not be anything\r\nleft of a mournful kind when death does not exist,\r\nnor anything that is adverse when there is no enemy. The\r\ndestruction of the last enemy, indeed, is to be understood,\r\nnot as if its substance, which was formed by God, is to\r\nperish, but because its mind and hostile will, which came not\r\nfrom God, but from itself, are to be destroyed. Its destruction,\r\ntherefore, will not be its non-existence, but its ceasing\r\nto be an enemy, and [to be] death. For nothing is impossible\r\nto the Omnipotent, nor is anything incapable of restoration<a id=\"r759\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f759\"><sup>[759]</sup></a>\r\nto its Creator: for He made all things that they might exist,\r\nand those things which were made for existence cannot cease\r\nto be. For this reason also will they admit of change and\r\nvariety, so as to be placed, according to their merits, either\r\nin a better or worse position; but no destruction of substance\r\ncan befall those things which were created by God for the\r\npurpose of permanent existence.<a id=\"r760\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f760\"><sup>[760]</sup></a> For those things which\r\nagreeably to the common opinion are believed to perish, the\r\nnature either of our faith or of the truth will not permit us\r\nto suppose to be destroyed. Finally, our flesh is supposed\r\nby ignorant men and unbelievers to be destroyed after death,\r\nin such a degree that it retains no relic at all of its former\r\nsubstance. We, however, who believe in its resurrection,\r\nunderstand that a change only has been produced by death,\r\nbut that its substance certainly remains; and that by the\r\nwill of its Creator, and at the time appointed, it will be\r\nrestored to life; and that a second time a change will take\r\nplace in it, so that what at first was flesh [formed] out of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_269\">269</span>earthly soil, and was afterwards dissolved by death, and\r\nagain reduced to dust and ashes (“For dust thou art,”<a id=\"r761\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f761\"><sup>[761]</sup></a> it is\r\nsaid, “and to dust shalt thou return”), will be again raised\r\nfrom the earth, and shall after this, according to the merits\r\nof the indwelling soul, advance to the glory of a spiritual\r\nbody.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER VI. ON THE END OF THE WORLD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-278"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"989c1c5f45f3f548b23114bb70a154b9f4945eeebcdd87e1d0cdd4031909f0b4","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f759","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":"f759","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f759\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r759\">759</a>. </span><span lang=\"la\">Insanabile.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f759","text_sha256":"c617b9770f3b20a7fdd6302c0ffd9cea8e10ed1eac5715f6f8405e1ec77df53e","verified":false,"work_id":null}