{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">If, however, it be necessary to express ourselves with precision\r\nin our answer to Celsus, who thinks that we hold the\r\nsame opinions on the matters in question as do the Jews, we\r\nwould say that we both agree that the books [of Scripture]\r\nwere written by the Spirit of God, but that we do <i>not</i> agree\r\nabout the meaning of their contents; for we do not regulate our\r\nlives like the Jews, because we are of opinion that the literal\r\nacceptation of the laws is not that which conveys the meaning\r\nof the legislation. And we maintain, that “when Moses is read,\r\nthe veil is upon their heart,”<a id=\"r1020\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1020\"><sup>[1020]</sup></a> because the meaning of the\r\nlaw of Moses has been concealed from those who have not\r\nwelcomed<a id=\"r1021\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1021\"><sup>[1021]</sup></a> the way which is by Jesus Christ. But we know\r\nthat if one turn to the Lord (for “the Lord is that Spirit”),\r\nthe veil being taken away, “he beholds, as in a mirror with\r\nunveiled face, the glory of the Lord” in those thoughts which\r\nare concealed in their literal expression, and to his own glory\r\nbecomes a participator of the divine glory; the term “face”\r\nbeing used figuratively for the “understanding,” as one would\r\ncall it without a figure, in which is the face of the “inner\r\nman,” filled with light and glory, flowing from the true comprehension\r\nof the contents of the law.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter LX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-388"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d84af3758028396dd946ec5013d8c19ee31557bcd03f9c80d0b0a154017cb676","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-f1021","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":"f1021","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1021\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1021\">1021</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἀσπασαμένοις.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1021","text_sha256":"b3f3d8dd4650d2a541c179c7e00351f2009f76e8f4684c489e4bbbb658f2ec5f","verified":false,"work_id":null}