{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">4. In the song of Deuteronomy,<a id=\"r796\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f796\"><sup>[796]</sup></a> also, it is prophetically\r\ndeclared that, on account of the sins of the former people,\r\nthere was to be an election of a foolish nation,—no other,\r\ncertainly, than that which was brought about by Christ; for\r\nthus the words run: “They have moved me to anger with\r\ntheir images, and I will stir them up to jealousy; I will\r\narouse them to anger against a foolish nation.”<a id=\"r797\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f797\"><sup>[797]</sup></a> We may\r\ntherefore evidently see how the Hebrews, who are said to\r\nhave excited God’s anger by means of those [idols], which\r\nare no gods, and to have aroused His wrath by their images,\r\nwere themselves also excited to jealousy by means of a foolish\r\nnation, which God hath chosen by the advent of Jesus Christ\r\nand His disciples. For the following is the language of the\r\napostle: “For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not\r\nmany wise men among you after the flesh, not many mighty,\r\nnot many noble (are called): but God has chosen the foolish\r\nthings of the world, and the things which are not, to destroy\r\nthe things which formerly existed.”<a id=\"r798\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f798\"><sup>[798]</sup></a> Carnal Israel, therefore,\r\nshould not boast; for such is the term used by the\r\napostle: “No flesh, I say, should glory in the presence of\r\nGod.”<a id=\"r799\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f799\"><sup>[799]</sup></a></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-293"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e1f16fd13dfb61702337bc31187a233ab5de22adbc9f89ae3baa80f34aefcd5e","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. i. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f799","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":"f799","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f799\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r799\">799</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Corinthians\">Cor.</abbr> <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 29.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f799","text_sha256":"62bd0aa02f048aff9e863985deb3728c271260a7115994ce083a16de1232d03c","verified":false,"work_id":null}