Essays in the History of Religious Thought in the West
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''By the unceasing action of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit towards us, renewed at each successive stage of our advance, we shall be able, " he says, "with difficulty perchance at some future time to look on the holy and blessed life ; and, when once we have been enabled to reach that, after many struggles, we ought so to continue in it that no weariness may take hold on us. Each fresh enjoy- ment of that bliss ought to enlarge or deepen our desire for it ; while we are ever receiving or hold...ing with more ardent love and larger grasp the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit \" But it will be said that this condition of progress, effort, assimilation, involves the possibility of declen- 1 De Princ. I. 3. 8.
15—2 228 ORIGEN AND THE BEGINNINGS OF sion, indolence, the obliteration of the Divine image. If man can go forward he can go backward. Origen accepts the consequence, and finds in it an explana- tion of the actual state of men and angels. The present position of each rational being corresponds, in his judgment, with the use which he has hitherto made of the revelations and gifts of God.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
''By the unceasing action of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit towards us, renewed at each successive stage of our advance, we shall be able, " he says, "with difficulty perchance at some future time to look on the holy and blessed life ; and, when once we have been enabled to reach that, after many struggles, we ought so to continue in it that no weariness may take hold on us. Each fresh enjoy- ment of that bliss ought to enlarge or deepen our desire for it ; while we are ever receiving or hold...ing with more ardent love and larger grasp the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit \" But it will be said that this condition of progress, effort, assimilation, involves the possibility of declen- 1 De Princ. I. 3. 8.
15—2 228 ORIGEN AND THE BEGINNINGS OF sion, indolence, the obliteration of the Divine image. If man can go forward he can go backward. Origen accepts the consequence, and finds in it an explana- tion of the actual state of men and angels. The present position of each rational being corresponds, in his judgment, with the use which he has hitherto made of the revelations and gifts of God.
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