{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He next assumes what is not granted by the more rational\r\nclass of believers, but what perhaps is considered to be true\r\nby some who are devoid of intelligence,—viz. that “God, like\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_150\">150</span>those who are overcome with pity, being Himself overcome,\r\nalleviates the sufferings of the wicked through pity for their\r\nwailings, and casts off the good, who do nothing of that kind,\r\nwhich is the height of injustice.” Now, in our judgment, God\r\nlightens the suffering of no wicked man who has not betaken\r\nhimself to a virtuous life, and casts off no one who is already\r\ngood, nor yet alleviates the suffering of any one who mourns,\r\nsimply because he utters lamentation, or takes pity upon him,\r\nto use the word pity in its more common acceptation.<a id=\"r452\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f452\"><sup>[452]</sup></a> But\r\nthose who have passed severe condemnation upon themselves\r\nbecause of their sins, and who, as on that account, lament and\r\nbewail themselves as lost, so far as their previous conduct is\r\nconcerned, and who have manifested a satisfactory change, are\r\nreceived by God on account of their repentance, as those who\r\nhave undergone a transformation from a life of great wickedness.\r\nFor virtue, taking up her abode in the souls of these\r\npersons, and expelling the wickedness which had previous possession\r\nof them, produces an oblivion of the past. And even\r\nalthough virtue do not effect an entrance, yet if a considerable\r\nprogress take place in the soul, even that is sufficient, in the proportion\r\nthat it is progressive, to drive out and destroy the flood\r\nof wickedness, so that it almost ceases to remain in the soul.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-209"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"914b5f3650be93529ac0e44669b9a6fcaa4d011838c266ded4d81af80f25b639","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-f452","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":"f452","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f452\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r452\">452</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἵνα κοινότερον τῷ ἐλέει χρήσωμαι.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f452","text_sha256":"4cfc66e34b5c5a036543e5e9366ffd908fd18b3d5a49fb4e8a97cecae62601ad","verified":false,"work_id":null}