{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. But now, since we are treating of the manner in which\r\nthe opposing powers stir up those contests, by means of\r\nwhich false knowledge is introduced into the minds of men,\r\nand human souls led astray, while they imagine that they\r\nhave discovered wisdom, I think it necessary to name and\r\ndistinguish the wisdom of this world, and of the princes of\r\nthis world, that by so doing we may discover who are the\r\nfathers of this wisdom, nay, even of these kinds of wisdom.<a id=\"r668\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f668\"><sup>[668]</sup></a>\r\nI am of opinion, therefore, as I have stated above, that there\r\nis another wisdom of this world besides those [different kinds\r\nof] wisdom<a id=\"r669\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f669\"><sup>[669]</sup></a> which belong to the princes of this world, by\r\nwhich wisdom those things seem to be understood and comprehended\r\nwhich belong to this world. This wisdom, however,\r\npossesses in itself no fitness for forming any opinion\r\neither respecting divine things,<a id=\"r670\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f670\"><sup>[670]</sup></a> or the plan of the world’s\r\ngovernment, or any other subjects of importance, or regarding\r\nthe training for a good or happy life; but is such as deals\r\nwholly with the art of poetry, <i>e.g.</i>, or that of grammar, or\r\nrhetoric, or geometry, or music, with which also, perhaps,\r\nmedicine should be classed. In all these subjects we are to\r\nsuppose that the wisdom of this world is included. The\r\nwisdom of the princes of this world, on the other hand,\r\nwe understand to be such as the secret and occult philosophy,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_239\">239</span>as they call it, of the Egyptians, and the astrology\r\nof the Chaldeans and Indians, who make profession of the\r\nknowledge of high things,<a id=\"r671\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f671\"><sup>[671]</sup></a> and also that manifold variety of\r\nopinion which prevails among the Greeks regarding divine\r\nthings. Accordingly, in the holy Scriptures we find that\r\nthere are princes over individual nations; as in Daniel<a id=\"r672\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f672\"><sup>[672]</sup></a> we\r\nread that there was a prince of the kingdom of Persia, and\r\nanother prince of the kingdom of Græcia, who are clearly\r\nshown, by the nature of the passage, to be not human beings,\r\nbut certain powers. In the prophecies of Ezekiel,<a id=\"r673\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f673\"><sup>[673]</sup></a> also, the\r\nprince of Tyre is unmistakeably shown to be a kind of spiritual\r\npower. When these, then, and others of the same kind,\r\npossessing each his own wisdom, and building up his own\r\nopinions and sentiments, beheld our Lord and Saviour professing\r\nand declaring that He had for this purpose come into\r\nthe world, that all the opinions of science, falsely so called,\r\nmight be destroyed, not knowing what was concealed within\r\nHim, they forthwith laid a snare for Him: for “the kings of\r\nthe earth set themselves, and the rulers assembled together,\r\nagainst the Lord and His Christ.”<a id=\"r674\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f674\"><sup>[674]</sup></a> But their snares being\r\ndiscovered, and the plans which they had attempted to carry\r\nout being made manifest when they crucified the Lord of glory,\r\ntherefore the apostle says, “We speak wisdom among them\r\nthat are perfect, but not the wisdom of this world, nor of the\r\nprinces of this world, who are brought to nought, which none\r\nof the princes of this world knew: for had they known it,\r\nthey would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”<a id=\"r675\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f675\"><sup>[675]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER III. 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