{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">If I must now explain how the just man “slays his enemies,”\r\nand prevails everywhere, it is to be observed that, when he\r\nsays, “Every morning will I destroy the wicked of the land,\r\nthat I may cut off all workers of iniquity from the city of\r\nJehovah,” by “the land” he means the flesh whose lusts are\r\nat enmity with God; and by “the city of Jehovah” he designates\r\nhis own soul, in which was the temple of God, containing\r\nthe true idea and conception of God, which makes it to be\r\nadmired by all who look upon it. As soon, then, as the rays of\r\nthe Sun of righteousness shine into his soul, feeling strengthened\r\nand invigorated by their influence, he sets himself to destroy\r\nall the lusts of the flesh, which are called “the wicked of the\r\nland,” and drives out of that city of the Lord which is in his\r\nsoul all thoughts which work iniquity, and all suggestions which\r\nare opposed to the truth. And in this way also the just give\r\nup to destruction all their enemies, which are their vices, so\r\nthat they do not spare even the children, that is, the early\r\nbeginnings and promptings of evil. In this sense also we\r\nunderstand the language of the <abbr title=\"hundred and thirty-seventh\">137th</abbr> Psalm: “O daughter\r\nof Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be that\r\nrewardeth thee as thou hast served us: happy shall he be that\r\ntaketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.”<a id=\"r1451\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1451\"><sup>[1451]</sup></a> For\r\n“the little ones” of Babylon (which signifies confusion) are\r\nthose troublesome sinful thoughts which arise in the soul; and\r\nhe who subdues them by striking, as it were, their heads against\r\nthe firm and solid strength of reason and truth, is the man who\r\n“dasheth the little ones against the stones;” and he is therefore\r\ntruly blessed. God may therefore have commanded men\r\nto destroy all their vices utterly, even at their birth, without\r\nhaving enjoined anything contrary to the teaching of Christ;\r\nand He may Himself have destroyed before the eyes of those\r\nwho were “Jews inwardly”<a id=\"r1452\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1452\"><sup>[1452]</sup></a> all the offspring of evil as His\r\nenemies. And, in like manner, those who disobey the law and\r\nword of God may well be compared to His enemies led astray\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_446\">446</span>by sin; and they may well be said to suffer the same fate as\r\nthey deserve who have proved traitors to the truth of God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XXII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-499"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cb5a0de31ab2580d5f7d2cff9affe1fc2dc5cdd41e08e41d50c16a8f3306c8df","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":137,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxxxvii. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1451","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":"f1451","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1451\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1451\">1451</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"a hundred and thirty-seven\">cxxxvii.</abbr> 8, 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1451","text_sha256":"7b4af724d419bd463ac3b8b40eca8480c9b4f3f37dd43e2d0fc7d7cd2ef6c0bf","verified":false,"work_id":null}