{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He continues to say, that “neither have visible things<a id=\"r752\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f752\"><sup>[752]</sup></a> been\r\ngiven to man [by God], but each individual thing comes into\r\nexistence and perishes for the sake of the safety of the whole,\r\npassing agreeably to the change, which I have already mentioned,\r\nfrom one thing to another.” It is unnecessary, however,\r\nto linger over the refutation of these statements, which have\r\nbeen already refuted to the best of my ability. And the following,\r\ntoo, has been answered, viz. that “there will neither be\r\nmore nor less good and evil among mortals.” This point also\r\nhas been referred to, viz. that “God does not need to amend\r\nHis work afresh.”<a id=\"r753\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f753\"><sup>[753]</sup></a> But it is not as a man who has imperfectly\r\ndesigned some piece of workmanship, and executed it unskilfully,\r\nthat God administers correction to the world, in purifying\r\nit by a flood or by a conflagration, but in order to prevent the\r\ntide of evil from rising to a greater height; and, moreover, I am\r\nof opinion that it is at periods which are precisely determined\r\nbeforehand that He sweeps wickedness away, so as to contribute\r\nto the good of the whole world.<a id=\"r754\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f754\"><sup>[754]</sup></a> If, however, he should assert\r\nthat, after the disappearance of evil, it again comes into existence,\r\nsuch questions will have to be examined in a special\r\ntreatise. It is, then, always in order to repair what has become\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_235\">235</span>faulty<a id=\"r755\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f755\"><sup>[755]</sup></a> that God desires to amend His work afresh. For\r\nalthough, in the creation of the world, all things had been\r\narranged by Him in the most beautiful and stable manner, He\r\nnevertheless needed to exercise some healing power upon those\r\nwho were labouring under the disease of wickedness, and upon\r\na whole world, which was polluted as it were thereby. But\r\nnothing has been neglected by God, or will be neglected by\r\nHim; for He does at each particular juncture what it becomes\r\nHim to do in a perverted and changed world. And as a husbandman\r\nperforms different acts of husbandry upon the soil\r\nand its productions, according to the varying seasons of the\r\nyear, so God administers entire ages of time, as if they were,\r\nso to speak, so many individual years, performing during each\r\none of them what is requisite with a reasonable regard to the\r\ncare of the world; and this, as it is truly understood by God\r\nalone, so also is it accomplished by Him.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-290"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d203faad95b1dfc235fabceabf0d63ab0c16a4e3ac3bd47c787a08a3b41ebea0","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f752","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 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f752","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f752\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r752\">752</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὰ ὁρώμενα.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f752","text_sha256":"aed7ae60de534afd6e8260f58664ecf3c459473f1d5f59d6f0d6506d77125c22","verified":false,"work_id":null}