{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Those Holy Scriptures, moreover, which bear the name of\r\nMoses, introduce the first men as hearing divine voices and\r\noracles, and beholding sometimes the angels of God coming\r\nto visit them. For it was probable that in the beginning\r\nof the world’s existence human nature would be assisted to a\r\ngreater degree [than afterwards], until progress had been made\r\ntowards the attainment of understanding and the other virtues,\r\nand the invention of the arts, and they should thus be able to\r\nmaintain life of themselves, and no longer stand in need of\r\nsuperintendents, and of those to guide them who do so with a\r\nmiraculous manifestation of the means which subserve the will\r\nof God. Now it follows from this, that it is false that “in\r\nthe beginning men were captured and devoured by wild beasts,\r\nwhile wild beasts were very seldom caught by men.” And\r\nfrom this, too, it is evident that the following statement of\r\nCelsus is untrue, that “in this way God rather subjected men\r\nto wild beasts.” For God did not subject men to wild beasts,\r\nbut gave wild beasts to be a prey to the understanding of man,\r\nand to the arts, which are directed against them, and which are\r\nthe product of the understanding. For it was not without the\r\nhelp of God<a id=\"r787\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f787\"><sup>[787]</sup></a> that men desired for themselves the means of\r\nprotection against wild beasts, and of securing the mastery over\r\nthem.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LXXX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-303"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5acfb641a3db80ff7b49da7b958e545e9ae68cfa7ca83972c9eb8ada46c51f43","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-f787","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":"f787","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f787\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r787\">787</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὐ γὰρ ἀθεεί.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f787","text_sha256":"13c7bfae75a60f211aeff0711e5a866a078fe5046adfd479d0e07d23df7412a0","verified":false,"work_id":null}