{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And we do not ask the question, “How shall we go to God?”\r\nas though we thought that God existed in some place. God is\r\nof too excellent a nature for any place: He holds all things in\r\nHis power, and is Himself not confined by anything whatever.\r\nThe precept, therefore, “Thou shalt walk after the Lord thy\r\nGod,”<a id=\"r1487\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1487\"><sup>[1487]</sup></a> does not command a bodily approach to God; neither\r\ndoes the prophet refer to physical nearness to God, when he says\r\nin his prayer, “My soul followeth hard after Thee.”<a id=\"r1488\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1488\"><sup>[1488]</sup></a> Celsus\r\ntherefore misrepresents us, when he says that we expect to see\r\nGod with our bodily eyes, to hear Him with our ears, and to\r\ntouch Him sensibly with our hands. We know that the holy\r\nScriptures make mention of eyes, of ears, and of hands, which\r\nhave nothing but the name in common with the bodily organs;\r\nand what is more wonderful, they speak of a diviner sense, which\r\nis very different from the senses as commonly spoken of. For\r\nwhen the prophet says, “Open Thou mine eyes, that I may\r\nbehold wondrous things out of Thy law,”<a id=\"r1489\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1489\"><sup>[1489]</sup></a> or, “The commandment\r\nof the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes,”<a id=\"r1490\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1490\"><sup>[1490]</sup></a> or, “Lighten\r\nmine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,”<a id=\"r1491\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1491\"><sup>[1491]</sup></a> no one is so foolish\r\nas to suppose that the eyes of the body behold the wonders of\r\nthe divine law, or that the law of the Lord gives light to the\r\nbodily eyes, or that the sleep of death falls on the eyes of the\r\nbody. When our Saviour says, “He that hath ears to hear,\r\nlet him hear,”<a id=\"r1492\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1492\"><sup>[1492]</sup></a> any one will understand that the ears spoken of\r\nare of a diviner kind. When it is said that the word of the\r\nLord was “in the hand” of Jeremiah or of some other prophet;\r\nor when the expression is used, “the law by the hand of\r\nMoses,” or, “I sought the Lord with my hands, and was not\r\ndeceived,”<a id=\"r1493\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1493\"><sup>[1493]</sup></a>—no one is so foolish as not to see that the word\r\n“hands” is taken figuratively, as when John says, “Our hands\r\nhave handled the Word of life.”<a id=\"r1494\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1494\"><sup>[1494]</sup></a> And if you wish further to\r\nlearn from the sacred writings that there is a diviner sense\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_457\">457</span>than the senses of the body, you have only to hear what Solomon\r\nsays, “Thou shalt find a divine sense.”<a id=\"r1495\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1495\"><sup>[1495]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-511"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"19bcfea6a07e58e93cd40415508ae7eecb54d4fe784c2c50a9648fdc213beb71","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xiii. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1492","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":"f1492","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1492\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1492\">1492</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirteen\">xiii.</abbr> 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1492","text_sha256":"20976b2504092d4e2b45aec3b0df40185df2c632172b554911cc5ffa49e868db","verified":false,"work_id":null}