22. But since the apostle in one place does not pretend that the becoming of a vessel unto honour or dishonour depends upon God, but refers back the whole to ourselves, saying, “If, then, a man purge himself, he will be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, meet for the Master’s use, and prepared unto every good work;” and elsewhere does not even pretend that it is dependent upon ourselves, but appears to attribute the whole to God, saying, “The potter hath power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another to dishonour;” and as his statements are not contradictory, we must reconcile them, and extract one complete statement from both. Neither does our own power,[595] apart from the knowledge[596] of God, compel us to make progress; nor does the knowledge of God [do so], unless we ourselves also contribute something to the good result; nor does our own power, apart from the knowledge of God, and the use of the power that worthily belongs to us,[597] make a man become [a vessel] unto honour or dishonour; nor does the will of God alone[598] form a man to honour or dishonour, unless He hold our will to be a kind of matter that admits of variation,[599] and that inclines to a better or worse course of conduct. And these observations are sufficient to have been made by us on the subject of free-will. Footnote 353: The whole of this chapter has been preserved in the original Greek, which is _literally_ translated in corresponding portions on each page, so that the differences between Origen’s own words and the amplifications and alterations of the paraphrase of Rufinus may be at once patent to the reader. Footnote 354: Natura ipsius arbitrii voluntatisque. Footnote 355: περὶ τοῦ αὐτεξουσίου. Footnote 356: τὴν ἔννοιαν αὐτοῦ ἀναπτύξαι. Footnote 357: Quæcunque hujusmodi sunt, quæ solo habitu materiæ suæ vel corporum constant. Footnote 358: Non tamen animantia sunt. Footnote 359: Phantasia. Footnote 360: Voluntas vel sensus. Footnote 361: Mella, ut aiunt, aeria congregandi. Rufinus seems to have read, in the original, ἀεροπλαστεῖν instead of κηροπλαστεῖν,—an evidence that he followed in general the worst readings (Redepenning). Footnote 362: ὑπὸ ἕξεως μόνης. Footnote 363: φαντασίας. Footnote 364: φύσεως φανταστικῆς. Footnote 365: καὶ οὐδενὸς ἄλλου μετὰ τὴν φανταστικὴν αὐτοῦ φύσιν πεπιστευμένου τοῦ ζώου. Footnote 366: Ordinatior quidem motus. Footnote 367: Incentivo quodam et naturali motu. Footnote 368: ποσῶς. Footnote 369: παρὰ τὰς ἀφορμὰς. Footnote 370: Ita ut etiam verisimilibus quibusdam causis intra cordis nostri tribunalia velut judici residenti ex utrâque parte adhiberi videatur assertio, ut causis prius expositis gerendi sententia de rationis judicio proferatur. Footnote 371: Causa ei perfecta et absoluta vel necessitas prævaricandi. Footnote 372: διὰ τάσδε τὰς πιθανότητας. Footnote 373: αὐτοτελής. Footnote 374: