which the government (_gubernacla_) of the world is sustained and commenced; so that he who surpassed all others in wickedness, and brought himself completely down to the earth, is made in another world, which is afterwards to be formed, a devil, the beginning of the creation of the Lord (Job xl. 19), to be mocked by the angels who have lost the virtue of their original condition’ (_exordii virtutem_).”—RUÆUS. Footnote 756: 1 Cor. v. 1. Footnote 757: 2 Cor. iv. 18. Footnote 758: 1 Cor. ii. 9; cf. Isa. lxiv. 4. Footnote 759: Insanabile. Footnote 760: Ut essent et permanerent. Footnote 761: Gen. iii. 19. Footnote 762: Ad summa. Footnote 763: 1 Cor. xv. 28. Footnote 764: Cf. Ps. cii. 25, 26. Footnote 765: Gen. i. 1. Footnote 766: Heb. viii. 5. Footnote 767: Ex. xxv. 40. Footnote 768: Jerome (Epistle to Avitus, No. 94) says that Origen, “after a most lengthened discussion, in which he asserts that all bodily nature is to be changed into attenuated and spiritual bodies, and that all substance is to be converted into one body of perfect purity, and more brilliant than any splendour (_mundissimum et omni splendore purius_), and such as the human mind cannot now conceive,” adds at the last, “And God will be ‘all in all,’ so that the whole of bodily nature may be reduced into that substance which is better than all others, into the divine, viz., than which none is better.” From which, since it seems to follow that God possesses a body, although of extreme tenuity (_licet tenuissimum_), Rufinus has either suppressed this view, or altered the meaning of Origen’s words (Ruæus). BOOK IV. [Transcriber’s Note: The following chapter was printed in the original book with the translation from the Latin on the top of the page, and the translation from the Greek on the bottom. In this e-book, instead, the Latin translation for an entire numbered section will be printed, followed by that section’s Greek translation.] CHAPTER I. THAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE DIVINELY INSPIRED. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF RUFINUS.