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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Origen… (1885)

Celsus says, that “it is not in keeping with the fitness of things that the first God should feel fatigue. Now we would say that neither does God the Word feel fatigue, nor any of those beings who belong to a better and diviner order of things, because the sensation of fatigue is peculiar to those who are in the body.
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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Origen… (1885)

For he knows nothing of the day of the Sabbath and rest of God, which follows the completion of the world’s creation, and which lasts during the duration of the world, and in which all those will keep festival with God who have done all their works in their six days, and who, because they have omitted none of their duties, [6] will ascend to the contemplation (of celestial things) , and to the assembly of righteous and blessed beings.
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