{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">When, then, the letter of the law promises riches to the just,\r\nCelsus may follow the letter which killeth, and understand it\r\nof worldly riches, which blind men; but we say that it refers to\r\nthose riches which enlighten the eyes, and which enrich a man\r\n“in all utterance and in all knowledge.” And in this sense\r\nwe “charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not\r\nhigh-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living\r\nGod, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; that they do\r\ngood, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing\r\nto communicate.”<a id=\"r1446\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1446\"><sup>[1446]</sup></a> For, as Solomon says, “riches” are\r\nthe true good, which “are the ransom of the life of a man;”\r\nbut the poverty which is the opposite of these riches is destructive,\r\nfor by it “the poor cannot bear rebuke.”<a id=\"r1447\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1447\"><sup>[1447]</sup></a> And what has\r\nbeen said of riches applies to dominion, in regard to which\r\nit is said, “The just man shall chase a thousand, and two\r\nput ten thousand to flight.”<a id=\"r1448\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1448\"><sup>[1448]</sup></a> Now if riches are to be taken\r\nin the sense we have just explained, consider if it is not\r\naccording to God’s promise that he who is rich in all utterance,\r\nin all knowledge, in all wisdom, in all good works, may\r\nnot out of these treasures of utterance, of wisdom, and of\r\nknowledge, lend to many nations. It was thus that Paul lent\r\nto all the nations that he visited, “carrying the gospel of\r\nChrist from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum.”<a id=\"r1449\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1449\"><sup>[1449]</sup></a>\r\nAnd as the divine knowledge was given to him by revelation,\r\nand his mind was illumined by the Divine Word, he himself\r\ntherefore needed to borrow from no one, and required not the\r\nministry of any man to teach him the word of truth. Thus,\r\nas it had been written, “Thou shalt have dominion over many\r\nnations, and they shall not have dominion over thee,” he ruled\r\nover the Gentiles whom he brought under the teaching of\r\nJesus Christ; and he never “gave place by subjection to men,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_445\">445</span>no, not for an hour,”<a id=\"r1450\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1450\"><sup>[1450]</sup></a> as being himself mightier than they.\r\nAnd thus also he “filled the earth.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-498"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d930c57a7d4cdf765eea3f0e725620e0a1b075cef43e4a2ed69e56afd9281d00","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. vi. 17","verse":17,"verse_end":17}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1446","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":"f1446","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1446\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1446\">1446</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Timothy\">Tim.</abbr> <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> 17, 18.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1446","text_sha256":"cffc7c4bdef0cf377f62180933ca4b025731eddea36a01e67d7b62098e2e7fc0","verified":false,"work_id":null}