{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">22. But since the apostle in one place does not pretend\r\nthat the becoming of a vessel unto honour or dishonour\r\ndepends upon God, but refers back the whole to ourselves,\r\nsaying, “If, then, a man purge himself, he will be a vessel\r\nunto honour, sanctified, meet for the Master’s use, and prepared\r\nunto every good work;” and elsewhere does not even\r\npretend that it is dependent upon ourselves, but appears to\r\nattribute the whole to God, saying, “The potter hath power\r\nover the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto\r\nhonour and another to dishonour;” and as his statements are\r\nnot contradictory, we must reconcile them, and extract one\r\ncomplete statement from both. Neither does our own power,<a id=\"r595\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f595\"><sup>[595]</sup></a>\r\napart from the knowledge<a id=\"r596\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f596\"><sup>[596]</sup></a> of God, compel us to make progress;\r\nnor does the knowledge of God [do so], unless we ourselves\r\nalso contribute something to the good result; nor does\r\nour own power, apart from the knowledge of God, and the\r\nuse of the power that worthily belongs to us,<a id=\"r597\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f597\"><sup>[597]</sup></a> make a man\r\nbecome [a vessel] unto honour or dishonour; nor does the\r\nwill of God alone<a id=\"r598\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f598\"><sup>[598]</sup></a> form a man to honour or dishonour, unless\r\nHe hold our will to be a kind of matter that admits of variation,<a id=\"r599\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f599\"><sup>[599]</sup></a>\r\nand that inclines to a better or worse course of conduct.\r\nAnd these observations are sufficient to have been made by\r\nus on the subject of free-will.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","FROM THE GREEK."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-242"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7ca8feb22e9ad45efc652af8423d0d6728692645cb50dfd8abd5cfda6b6e6c0f","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f597","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":"f597","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f597\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r597\">597</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τῆς καταχρήσεως τοῦ κατ’ ἀξίαν τοῦ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν.</span> <span lang=\"la\">“Nec sine usu liberi\r\nnostri arbitrii, quod peculiare nobis et meriti nostri est”</span> (Redepenning).</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f597","text_sha256":"1dccd34b2839cdd011e4caf050206a4409757810d90de66977c96f32c33f2ede","verified":false,"work_id":null}