{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After the above statements, he continues: “If he wished to\r\nremain hid, why was there heard a voice from heaven proclaiming\r\nhim to be the Son of God? And if he did not seek\r\nto remain concealed, why was he punished? or why did he\r\ndie?” Now, by such questions he thinks to convict the histories\r\nof discrepancy, not observing that Jesus neither desired\r\nall things regarding Himself to be known to all whom He happened\r\nto meet, nor yet all things to be unknown. Accordingly,\r\nthe voice from heaven which proclaimed Him to be the Son of\r\nGod, in the words, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am\r\nwell pleased,”<a id=\"r218\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f218\"><sup>[218]</sup></a> is not stated to have been audible to the multitudes,\r\nas this Jew of Celsus supposed. The voice from the\r\ncloud on the high mountain, moreover, was heard only by those\r\nwho had gone up with Him. For the divine voice is of such a\r\nnature, as to be heard only by those whom the speaker wishes\r\nto hear it. And I maintain, that the voice of God which is\r\nreferred to, is neither air which has been struck, nor any concussion\r\nof the air, nor anything else which is mentioned in\r\ntreatises on the voice;<a id=\"r219\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f219\"><sup>[219]</sup></a> and therefore it is heard by a better\r\nand more divine organ of hearing than that of sense. And\r\nwhen the speaker will not have his voice to be heard by all, he\r\nthat has the finer ear hears the voice of God, while he who has\r\nthe ears of his soul deadened does not perceive that it is God\r\nwho speaks. These things I have mentioned because of his\r\nasking, “Why was there heard a voice from heaven proclaiming\r\nhim to be the Son of God?” while with respect to the\r\nquery, “Why was he punished, if he wished to remain hid?”\r\nwhat has been stated at greater length in the preceding pages\r\non the subject of His sufferings may suffice.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXXII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-119"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f4b9c72f6213acdc06bab2ba84a1776c2f754e3ac90fd9dc979013dad1fdc4e6","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. iii. 17","verse":17,"verse_end":17}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f218","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":"f218","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f218\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r218\">218</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 17.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f218","text_sha256":"00d5f2d001104e0d095584acc986546dc67b2e6915e1e75aeecd9bc048092637","verified":false,"work_id":null}