{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-1804","native_reference":{"book_number":500,"chapter_from":21,"chapter_to":21,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":25,"verse_to":25},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Origen de Principiis Book II</p><p>and clearly what truth is, save the Father of truth? who can investigate with certainty the universal nature of His Word, and of God Himself, which nature proceeds from God, except God alone, with whom the Word was), we ought to regard it as certain that this Word, or Reason (if it is to be so termed), this Wisdom, this Truth, is known to no other than the Father only; and of Him it is written, that \"I do not think that the world itself could contain the books which might be written,\"[79]</p><p>Origen Commentary on John Book I</p><p>Why should I say, \"are not contained in writings\"? For John speaks of the whole world in this connection, and says:[54]</p><p>Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV</p><p>and for this reason the writers of the Gospelshave concealed the clear exposition of the parables, because the things signified by them were beyondthe power of the nature of words to express, and every solution and exposition of such parables wasof such a kind that not even the whole world itself could contain the books that should bewritten[81]</p>","source_html_sha256":"32a791a90f540f731884b99bb3a2b7ba52e33db235cc3680830bb5619d21d865","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":1804,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"6583f8d5aafe7be0031fb2cded35bcb7763105d7c38540dc0f9f2b4928cf2373","translator":null,"work":null}