{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">3. I am of opinion that the expression, by which God is\r\nsaid to be “all in all,” means that He is “all” in each\r\nindividual person. Now He will be “all” in each individual\r\nin this way: when all which any rational understanding,\r\ncleansed from the dregs of every sort of vice, and with every\r\ncloud of wickedness completely swept away, can either feel,\r\nor understand, or think, will be wholly God; and when it will\r\nno longer behold or retain anything else than God, but when\r\nGod will be the measure and standard of all its movements;\r\nand thus God will be “all,” for there will no longer be any\r\ndistinction of good and evil, seeing evil nowhere exists; for\r\nGod is all things, and to Him no evil is near: nor will there\r\nbe any longer a desire to eat from the tree of the knowledge\r\nof good and evil, on the part of him who is always in the\r\npossession of good, and to whom God is all. So then, when\r\nthe end has been restored to the beginning, and the termination\r\nof things compared with their commencement, that\r\ncondition of things will be re-established in which rational\r\nnature was placed, when it had no need to eat of the tree of\r\nthe knowledge of good and evil; so that when all feeling of\r\nwickedness has been removed, and the individual has been\r\npurified and cleansed, He who alone is the one good God\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_266\">266</span>becomes to him “all,” and that not in the case of a few individuals,\r\nor of a considerable number, but He Himself is\r\n“all in all.” And when death shall no longer anywhere\r\nexist, nor the sting of death, nor any evil at all, then verily\r\nGod will be “all in all.” But some are of opinion that that\r\nperfection and blessedness of rational creatures, or natures,\r\ncan only remain in that same condition of which we have\r\nspoken above, <i>i.e.</i> that all things should possess God, and\r\nGod should be to them all things, if they are in no degree\r\nprevented by their union with a bodily nature. Otherwise\r\nthey think that the glory of the highest blessedness is impeded\r\nby the intermixture of any material substance.<a id=\"r755\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f755\"><sup>[755]</sup></a> But\r\nthis subject we have discussed at greater length, as may be\r\nseen in the preceding pages.</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-276"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"322f0d6c9a5a551a18521f8b30c710386b272da8d11b27e7e01b922677fb0967","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f755","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":"f755","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f755\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r755\">755</a>. </span>“Here the honesty of Rufinus in his translation seems very suspicious;\r\nfor Origen’s well-known opinion regarding the sins and lapses\r\nof blessed spirits he here attributes to others. Nay, even the opinion\r\nwhich he introduces Origen as ascribing to others, he exhibits him as\r\nrefuting a little further on, <abbr title=\"section\">sec.</abbr> 6, in these words: ‘And in this\r\ncondition [of blessedness] we are to believe that, by the will of the\r\nCreator, it will abide for ever without any change,’ etc. I suspect,\r\ntherefore, that all this is due to Rufinus himself, and that he has inserted\r\nit, instead of what is found in the beginning of the chapter, <abbr title=\"section\">sec.</abbr> 1, and\r\nwhich in Jerome’s Epistle to Avitus stands as follows: ‘Nor is there\r\nany doubt that, after certain intervals of time, matter will again exist,\r\nand bodies be formed, and a diversity be established in the world, on\r\naccount of the varying wills of rational creatures, who, after [enjoying]\r\nperfect blessedness down to the end of all things, have gradually fallen\r\naway to a lower condition, and received into them so much wickedness,\r\nthat they are converted into an opposite condition, by their unwillingness\r\nto retain their original state, and to preserve their blessedness uncorrupted.\r\nNor is this point to be suppressed, that many rational creatures\r\nretain their first condition (<span lang=\"la\"><i>principium</i></span>) even to the second and third\r\nand fourth worlds, and allow no room for any change within them;\r\nwhile others, again, will lose so little of their pristine state, that they\r\nwill appear to have lost almost nothing, and some are to be precipitated\r\nwith great destruction into the lowest pit. And God, the disposer of\r\nall things, when creating His worlds, knows how to treat each individual\r\nagreeably to his merits, and He is acquainted with the occasions and\r\ncauses by which the government (<span lang=\"la\"><i>gubernacla</i></span>) of the world is sustained\r\nand commenced; so that he who surpassed all others in wickedness, and\r\nbrought himself completely down to the earth, is made in another\r\nworld, which is afterwards to be formed, a devil, the beginning of the\r\ncreation of the Lord (Job <abbr title=\"forty\">xl.</abbr> 19), to be mocked by the angels who\r\nhave lost the virtue of their original condition’ (<span lang=\"la\"><i>exordii virtutem</i></span>).”—<span class=\"sc\">Ruæus.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f755","text_sha256":"b77e3a7740a92d52a2c0f93fe55a9b5d44ca1ac6021aae3b2e80cc7a2421ff23","verified":false,"work_id":null}