> From this we infer that all who live on this earth have to begin with
> the use of the senses upon sensible objects in order to go on from
> them
> to a knowledge of the nature of intellectual things. Yet their
> knowledge must not stop short with the objects of sense.
> Origen, Against Celsus 37 (ANF 4:625)
> These things apply to all human beings who possess natural reason.
> Yet
> they more specifically apply to those called philosophers, who are
> wise
> in the things of this world. Their job is to ponder the creatures of
> this world and everything which is made in it, and from the things
> which
> are seen, to perceive in their minds the things which are invisible.
> Origen, Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (CER 1:142)
Origen in these passages may well have had in mind Wisdom 13:1-9, whose
argument is very similar.
Oriens.
>
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