{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The following, then, are his words: “It is folly on their part\r\nto suppose that when God, as if He were a cook,<a id=\"r893\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f893\"><sup>[893]</sup></a> introduces\r\nthe fire [which is to consume the world], all the rest of the\r\nhuman race will be burnt up, while they alone will remain, not\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_282\">282</span>only such of them as are then alive, but also those who are long\r\nsince dead, which latter will arise from the earth clothed with\r\nthe self-same flesh [as during life]; for such a hope is simply\r\none which might be cherished by worms. For what sort of\r\nhuman soul is that which would still long for a body that had\r\nbeen subject to corruption? Whence, also, this opinion of\r\nyours is not shared by some of the Christians, and they pronounce\r\nit to be exceedingly vile, and loathsome, and impossible;\r\nfor what kind of body is that which, after being completely\r\ncorrupted, can return to its original nature, and to that self-same\r\nfirst condition out of which it fell into dissolution?\r\nBeing unable to return any answer, they betake themselves\r\nto a most absurd refuge, viz. that all things are possible to\r\nGod. And yet God <i>cannot</i> do things that are disgraceful, nor\r\ndoes He wish to do things that are contrary to His nature; nor,\r\nif (in accordance with the wickedness of your own heart) you\r\ndesired anything that was evil, would God accomplish it; nor\r\nmust you believe at once that it will be done. For God does\r\nnot rule the world in order to satisfy inordinate desires, or to\r\nallow disorder and confusion, but to govern a nature that is\r\nupright and just.<a id=\"r894\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f894\"><sup>[894]</sup></a> For the <i>soul</i>, indeed, He might be able to\r\nprovide an everlasting life; while dead <i>bodies</i>, on the contrary,\r\nare, as Heraclitus observes, more worthless than dung. God,\r\nhowever, neither can nor will declare, contrary to all reason,\r\nthat the flesh, which is full of those things which it is not even\r\nhonourable to mention, is to exist for ever. For He is the\r\nreason of all things that exist, and therefore can do nothing\r\neither contrary to reason or contrary to Himself.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-341"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"69b4f397a1ba2ca85e9703e8cdf0af6cda7dd4f04d6a34df213ef53cceab362a","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-f894","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":"f894","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f894\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r894\">894</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὐ γὰρ τῆς πλημμελοῦς ὀρέξεως, οὐδὲ τῆς πεπλανημένης ἀκοσμίας, ἀλλὰ\r\nτῆς ὀρθῆς καὶ δικαίας φύσεως Θεός ἐστιν ἀρχηγέτης.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f894","text_sha256":"f96a80a492b3431661ff7e1a7f33ca1a4ec1f36ec0f5748adfba3b5e49817913","verified":false,"work_id":null}