{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Since we hold that the great God is in essence simple, invisible,\r\nand incorporeal, Himself pure intelligence, or something\r\ntranscending intelligence and existence, we can never say that\r\nGod is apprehended by any other means than through the intelligence\r\nwhich is formed in His image, though now, in the\r\nwords of Paul, “we see in a glass obscurely, but then face to\r\nface.”<a id=\"r1498\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1498\"><sup>[1498]</sup></a> And if we use the expression “face to face,” let no one\r\npervert its meaning; but let it be explained by this passage,\r\n“Beholding with open face the glory of the Lord, we are\r\nchanged into the same image, from glory to glory,” which shows\r\nthat we do not use the word in this connection to mean the\r\nvisible face, but take it figuratively, in the same way as we have\r\nshown that the eyes, the ears, and the other parts of the body\r\nare employed. And it is certain that a man—I mean a soul\r\nusing a body, otherwise called “the inner man,” or simply\r\n“the soul”—would answer, not as Celsus makes us answer, but\r\nas the man of God himself teaches. It is certain also that a\r\nChristian will not make use of “the language of the flesh,”\r\nhaving learnt as he has “to mortify the deeds of the body”<a id=\"r1499\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1499\"><sup>[1499]</sup></a> by\r\nthe spirit, and “to bear about in his body the dying of Jesus;”<a id=\"r1500\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1500\"><sup>[1500]</sup></a>\r\nand “mortify your members which are on the earth,”<a id=\"r1501\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1501\"><sup>[1501]</sup></a> and with\r\na true knowledge of these words, “My Spirit shall not always\r\nstrive with man, for that he also is flesh,”<a id=\"r1502\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1502\"><sup>[1502]</sup></a> and again, “They that\r\nare in the flesh cannot please God,”<a id=\"r1503\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1503\"><sup>[1503]</sup></a> he strives in every way to live\r\nno longer according to the flesh, but only according to the Spirit.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XXXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-515"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"69b61a81ab159712b4f99f0dd523667a21e56bf6b1c6e3fb27cb974c187dc9b3","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. vi. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1502","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":"f1502","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1502\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1502\">1502</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Genesis\">Gen.</abbr> <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1502","text_sha256":"479cb5801749d19ebd1ba2d2326d7113ab02768349efdd8e7e6bcc204e6d7432","verified":false,"work_id":null}