{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_20\">20</span>3. Now, in the same way in which we have understood\r\nthat Wisdom was the beginning of the ways of God, and is\r\nsaid to be created, forming beforehand and containing within\r\nherself the species and beginnings of all creatures, must we\r\nunderstand her to be the Word of God, because of her disclosing\r\nto all other beings, <i>i.e.</i> to universal creation, the\r\nnature of the mysteries and secrets which are contained\r\nwithin the divine wisdom; and on this account she is called\r\nthe Word, because she is, as it were, the interpreter of the\r\nsecrets of the mind. And therefore that language which\r\nis found in the <i>Acts of Paul</i>,<a id=\"r48\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f48\"><sup>[48]</sup></a> where it is said that “here is\r\nthe Word a living being,” appears to me to be rightly used.\r\nJohn, however, with more sublimity and propriety, says in\r\nthe beginning of his Gospel, when defining God by a special\r\ndefinition to be the Word, “And God was the Word,<a id=\"r49\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f49\"><sup>[49]</sup></a> and\r\nthis was in the beginning with God.” Let him, then, who\r\nassigns a beginning to the Word or Wisdom of God, take care\r\nthat he be not guilty of impiety against the unbegotten\r\nFather Himself, seeing he denies that He had always been\r\na Father, and had generated the Word, and had possessed\r\nwisdom in all preceding periods, whether they be called times\r\nor ages, or anything else that can be so entitled.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER II. ON CHRIST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-77"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9b06d84898e6cbe8878444ffe9576d0b76d0a167c26e0e1c14f6970d4338c8b1","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f49","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":"f49","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f49\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r49\">49</a>. </span>Or, “and the Word was God.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f49","text_sha256":"0a7b24ccb36a15d210457705bb6fb123c2b3e976fc36019015420b1c4b337670","verified":false,"work_id":null}