{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The Psalmist bears witness that divine justice employs certain\r\nevil angels to inflict calamities upon men: “He cast upon\r\nthem the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and\r\ntrouble, sent by evil angels.”<a id=\"r1616\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1616\"><sup>[1616]</sup></a> Whether demons ever go beyond\r\nthis when they are suffered to do what they are ever ready,\r\nthough through the restraint put upon them they are not always\r\nable to do, is a question to be solved by that man who can conceive,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_518\">518</span>in so far as human nature will allow, how it accords with\r\nthe divine justice, that such multitudes of human souls are\r\nseparated from the body while walking in the paths which lead\r\nto certain death. “For the judgments of God are so great,”\r\nthat a soul which is still clothed with a mortal body cannot\r\ncomprehend them; “and they cannot be expressed: therefore\r\nby unnurtured souls”<a id=\"r1617\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1617\"><sup>[1617]</sup></a> they are not in any measure to be\r\nunderstood. And hence, too, rash spirits, by their ignorance in\r\nthese matters, and by recklessly setting themselves against the\r\nDivine Being, multiply impious objections against providence.\r\nIt is not from demons, then, that men receive any of those things\r\nwhich meet the necessities of life, and least of all ourselves,\r\nwho have been taught to make a proper use of these things.\r\nAnd they who partake of corn and wine, and the fruits of\r\ntrees, of water and of air, do not feed with demons, but rather\r\ndo they feast with divine angels, who are appointed for this purpose,\r\nand who are as it were invited to the table of the pious\r\nman, who hearkens to the precept of the word, which says,\r\n“Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the\r\nglory of God.”<a id=\"r1618\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1618\"><sup>[1618]</sup></a> And again, in another place it is written,\r\n“Do all things in the name of God.”<a id=\"r1619\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1619\"><sup>[1619]</sup></a> When, therefore, we\r\neat and drink and breathe to the glory of God, and act in all\r\nthings according to what is right, we feast with no demons, but\r\nwith divine angels: “For every creature is good, and nothing\r\nto be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is\r\nsanctified by the word of God and prayer.”<a id=\"r1620\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1620\"><sup>[1620]</sup></a> But it could not\r\nbe good, and it could not be sanctified, if these things were, as\r\nCelsus supposes, entrusted to the charge of demons.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter XXXII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-579"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5c9870aa3f8c953c75f2085d049aff87e2fbdbbe231ef1638ea5198dbd10e599","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"COL","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Col. iii. 17","verse":17,"verse_end":17}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1618","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":"f1618","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1618\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1618\">1618</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Colossians\">Col.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 17.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1618","text_sha256":"21d20c8ec6d32bd21048baaf05235e2776b57bf14adecdc9a56554d4a88ae0d0","verified":false,"work_id":null}