{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And perhaps also from the words, “For ye see your calling,\r\nbrethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not\r\nmany mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chosen\r\nthe foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and the\r\nbase things, and the things which are despised, hath God chosen,\r\nand things which are not, to bring to nought things that are,\r\nthat no flesh may glory in His presence;”<a id=\"r395\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f395\"><sup>[395]</sup></a> some have been\r\nled to suppose that no one who is instructed, or wise, or prudent,\r\nembraces the gospel. Now, in answer to such an one, we would\r\nsay that it has not been stated that “<i>no</i> wise man according to the\r\nflesh,” but that “not <i>many</i> wise men according to the flesh,” are\r\ncalled. It is manifest, further, that amongst the characteristic\r\nqualifications of those who are termed “bishops,” Paul, in describing\r\nwhat kind of man the bishop ought to be, lays down as\r\na qualification that he should also be a teacher, saying that he\r\nought to be able to convince the gainsayers, that by the wisdom\r\nwhich is in him he may stop the mouths of foolish talkers and\r\ndeceivers.<a id=\"r396\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f396\"><sup>[396]</sup></a> And as he selects for the episcopate a man who has\r\nbeen once married<a id=\"r397\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f397\"><sup>[397]</sup></a> rather than he who has twice entered the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_130\">130</span>married state, and a man of blameless life rather than one who\r\nis liable to censure, and a sober man rather than one who is not\r\nsuch, and a prudent man rather than one who is not prudent, and\r\na man whose behaviour is decorous rather than he who is open\r\nto the charge even of the slightest indecorum, so he desires that\r\nhe who is to be chosen by preference for the office of a bishop\r\nshould be apt to teach, and able to convince the gainsayers. How\r\nthen can Celsus justly charge us with saying, “Let no one come\r\nto us who is ‘instructed,’ or ‘wise,’ or ‘prudent?’” Nay, let him\r\nwho wills come to us “instructed,” and “wise,” and “prudent;”\r\nand none the less, if any one be ignorant and unintelligent,\r\nand uninstructed and foolish, let him also come: for it is these\r\nwhom the gospel promises to cure, when they come, by rendering\r\nthem all worthy of God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XLVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-184"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"605165a7fd82a40430065f5859cdc14aedabe13b84756d7f4c3812ca161f58fe","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f397","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":"f397","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f397\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r397\">397</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">Μονόγαμον.</span> <abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <i>Can. Apost.</i> <abbr title=\"chapter\">c.</abbr> <abbr title=\"seventeen\">xvii.</abbr>: <span lang=\"grc\">“ὁ δυσὶ γάμοις συμπλακεὶς μετὰ\r\nτὸ βάπτισμα, ἢ παλλακὴν κτησάμενος, οὐ δύναται εἶναι ἐπίσκοπος, ἢ πρεσβύτερος,\r\nἢ διάκονος, ἢ ὅλως τοῦ καταλόγου τοῦ ἱερατικοῦ.”</span> <abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> note in Benedictine\r\n<abbr title=\"edition\">ed.</abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f397","text_sha256":"75c35602bb76208d6e2f25b2a654b908183059c590acc5d69cd8dd69dd6bdd0b","verified":false,"work_id":null}