{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Let such, then, be our views respecting those events which\r\nappear to befall men, either immediately after birth, or even\r\nbefore they enter upon the light. But as regards the suggestions\r\nwhich are made to the soul, <i>i.e.</i> to the faculty of\r\nhuman thought, by different spirits, and which arouse men to\r\ngood actions or the contrary, even in such a case we must\r\nsuppose that there sometimes existed certain causes anterior\r\nto bodily birth. For occasionally the mind, when watchful,\r\nand casting away from it what is evil, calls to itself the aid of\r\nthe good; or if it be, on the contrary, negligent and slothful,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_244\">244</span>it makes room through insufficient caution for these spirits,\r\nwhich, lying in wait secretly like robbers, contrive to rush\r\ninto the minds of men when they see a lodgment made for\r\nthem by sloth; as the Apostle Peter says, “that our adversary\r\nthe devil goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may\r\ndevour.”<a id=\"r693\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f693\"><sup>[693]</sup></a> On which account our heart must be kept with\r\nall carefulness both by day and night, and no place be given\r\nto the devil; but every effort must be used that the ministers\r\nof God—those spirits, viz., who were sent to minister to them\r\nwho are called to be heirs of salvation<a id=\"r694\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f694\"><sup>[694]</sup></a>—may find a place\r\nwithin us, and be delighted to enter into the guest-chamber<a id=\"r695\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f695\"><sup>[695]</sup></a>\r\nof our soul, and dwelling within us may guide us by their\r\ncounsels; if, indeed, they shall find the habitation of our\r\nheart adorned by the practice of virtue and holiness. But\r\nlet that be sufficient which we have said, as we best could,\r\nregarding those powers which are hostile to the human race.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER III. ON THREEFOLD WISDOM."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-257"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"31584651a2d542c82cd4b7da857fe24d008d87db6af79b89a90acbcbf79e3e60","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1PE","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Pet. v. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f693","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f693","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f693\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r693\">693</a>. </span>1 <abbr title=\"Peter\">Pet.</abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f693","text_sha256":"84b27e63939ae0ad6a16c4f423dc291570af06a78f282e45b2c9bcb31c5c96f0","verified":false,"work_id":null}