{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Now, in the next place, if any one has the capacity, let him\r\nunderstand that in what assumes the form of history, and which\r\ncontains some things that are literally true, while yet it conveys\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_300\">300</span>a deeper meaning, those who preserved their original language\r\ncontinued, by reason of their not having migrated from the\r\neast, in possession of the east, and of their eastern language.\r\nAnd let him notice, that these alone became the portion of the\r\nLord, and His people who were called Jacob, and Israel the\r\ncord of His inheritance; and these alone were governed by a\r\nruler who did not receive those who were placed under him\r\nfor the purpose of punishment, as was the case with the others.\r\nLet him also, who has the capacity to perceive as far as mortals\r\nmay, observe that in the body politic<a id=\"r950\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f950\"><sup>[950]</sup></a> of those who were\r\nassigned to the Lord as His pre-eminent portion, sins were\r\ncommitted, first of all, such as might be forgiven, and of\r\nsuch a nature as not to make the sinner worthy of entire\r\ndesertion, while subsequently they became more numerous,\r\nthough still of a nature to be pardoned. And while remarking\r\nthat this state of matters continued for a considerable time,\r\nand that a remedy was always applied, and that after certain\r\nintervals these persons returned to their duty, let him notice\r\nthat they were given over, in proportion to their transgressions,\r\nto those to whom had been assigned the other quarters of the\r\nearth; and that, after being at first slightly punished, and\r\nhaving made atonement,<a id=\"r951\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f951\"><sup>[951]</sup></a> they returned, as if they had undergone\r\ndiscipline,<a id=\"r952\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f952\"><sup>[952]</sup></a> to their proper habitations. Let him notice also\r\nthat afterwards they were delivered over to rulers of a severer\r\ncharacter—to Assyrians and Babylonians, as the Scriptures\r\nwould call them. In the next place, notwithstanding that\r\nmeans of healing were being applied, let him observe that they\r\nwere still multiplying their transgressions, and that they were\r\non that account dispersed into other regions by the rulers of\r\nthe nations that oppressed them. And their own ruler intentionally\r\noverlooked their oppression at the hands of the rulers\r\nof the other nations, in order that he also with good reason, as\r\navenging himself, having obtained power to tear away from\r\nthe other nations as many as he can, may do so, and enact for\r\nthem laws, and point out a manner of life agreeably to which\r\nthey ought to live, that so he may conduct them to the end to\r\nwhich those of the former people were conducted who did not\r\ncommit sin.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-358"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"706e71a989a814b178010be6d2a0d88fc82f2a4e5eff334ce043b19918584ce1","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-f950","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":"f950","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f950\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r950\">950</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">πολιτείᾳ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f950","text_sha256":"5b9d48f981b5ae3fbc82fa75543d16c8805cb272fd0ee8fba38c6ac39d8925f4","verified":false,"work_id":null}