{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Whatever, therefore, we have predicated of the wisdom of\r\nGod, will be appropriately applied and understood of the Son\r\nof God, in virtue of His being the Life, and the Word, and\r\nthe Truth, and the Resurrection: for all these titles are\r\nderived from His power and operations, and in none of them\r\nis there the slightest ground for understanding anything of a\r\ncorporeal nature which might seem to denote either size, or\r\nform, or colour; for those children of men which appear\r\namong us, or those descendants of other living beings, correspond\r\nto the seed of those by whom they were begotten,\r\nor derive from those mothers, in whose wombs they are\r\nformed and nourished, whatever that is, which they bring\r\ninto this life, and carry with them when they are born.<a id=\"r50\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f50\"><sup>[50]</sup></a> But\r\nit is monstrous and unlawful to compare God the Father, in\r\nthe generation of His only-begotten Son, and in the substance<a id=\"r51\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f51\"><sup>[51]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_22\">22</span>of the same, to any man or other living thing engaged\r\nin such an act; for we must of necessity hold that there is\r\nsomething exceptional and worthy of God which does not\r\nadmit of any comparison at all, not merely in things, but\r\nwhich cannot even be conceived by thought or discovered\r\nby perception, so that a human mind should be able to apprehend\r\nhow the unbegotten God is made the Father of the\r\nonly-begotten Son. Because His generation is as eternal\r\nand everlasting as the brilliancy which is produced from the\r\nsun. For it is not by receiving the<a id=\"r52\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f52\"><sup>[52]</sup></a> breath of life that He\r\nis made a Son, by <i>any outward act</i>, but by His own nature.</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-79"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a90dee0dbc72e866afa22002cb6b914f650f24b53933156a6e94218bec769655","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. ii. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f52","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":"f52","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f52\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r52\">52</a>. </span><span lang=\"la\">Per adoptionem Spiritus.</span> The original words here were probably\r\nεἰσποίησις τοῦ πνεύματος, and Rufinus seems to have mistaken the allusion\r\nto <abbr title=\"Genesis\">Gen.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 7. To “adoption,” in the technical theological sense, the\r\nwords in the text cannot have any reference.—<span class=\"sc\">Schnitzer.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f52","text_sha256":"004d8b1656e2b91f0c0238088a2f20452bcd77668e8a4191139269daaf9b4418","verified":false,"work_id":null}