{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, after what has been said, goes on as follows: “I\r\ncan tell how the very thing occurred, viz. that they should call\r\nhim ‘Son of God.’ Men of ancient times termed this world,\r\nas being born of God, both his child and his son.<a id=\"r1265\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1265\"><sup>[1265]</sup></a> Both the\r\none and other ‘Son of God,’ then, greatly resembled each\r\nother.” He is therefore of opinion that we employed the expression\r\n“Son of God,” having perverted<a id=\"r1266\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1266\"><sup>[1266]</sup></a> what is said of the\r\nworld, as being born of God, and being His “Son,” and “a God.”\r\nFor he was unable so to consider the times of Moses and the\r\nprophets, as to see that the Jewish prophets predicted generally\r\nthat there was a “Son of God” long before the Greeks and\r\nthose men of ancient time of whom Celsus speaks. Nay, he\r\nwould not even quote the passage in the letters of Plato, to\r\nwhich we referred in the preceding pages, concerning Him who\r\nso beautifully arranged this world, as being the Son of God;\r\nlest he too should be compelled by Plato, whom he often mentions\r\nwith respect, to admit that the architect of this world <i>is</i>\r\nthe Son of God, and that His Father is the first God and Sovereign\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_389\">389</span>Ruler over all things. Nor is it at all wonderful if we\r\nmaintain that the soul of Jesus is made one with so great a Son\r\nof God through the highest union with Him, being no longer\r\nin a state of separation from Him. For the sacred language\r\nof Holy Scripture knows of other things also, which, although\r\n“dual” in their own nature, are considered to be, and really are,\r\n“one” in respect to one another. It is said of husband and\r\nwife, “They are no longer twain, but one flesh;”<a id=\"r1267\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1267\"><sup>[1267]</sup></a> and of the\r\nperfect man, and of him who is joined to the true Lord, Word,\r\nand Wisdom, and Truth, that “he who is joined to the Lord is\r\none spirit.”<a id=\"r1268\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1268\"><sup>[1268]</sup></a> And if he who “is joined to the Lord is one spirit,”\r\nwho has been joined to the Lord, the Very Word, and Wisdom,\r\nand Truth, and Righteousness, in a more intimate union, or even\r\nin a manner at all approaching to it than the soul of Jesus?\r\nAnd if this be so, then the soul of Jesus and God the Word—the\r\nfirst-born of every creature—are no longer two, [but one].</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XLVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-442"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"65fa61341da011bb93f93c80d3a8786bd5482ee5dacb75f2029aaa974b436fbd","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-f1266","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":"f1266","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1266\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1266\">1266</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">παραποιήσαντας.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1266","text_sha256":"a482798eb6bd2560764377d0c4995ed1ba89c62e50b436763df18a800bd2ec85","verified":false,"work_id":null}