{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/009/0090450.htm","path":"chr/ecf/009/0090450.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/009/0090450.htm","text":"9. Satan and the \u201cDelivery\u201d Of Jesus.\nNow we must think that the devil has the power of death,\u2014not of that which is common and indifferent, in accordance with which those who are compacted of soul and body die, when their soul is separated from the body,\u2014but of that death which is contrary to and the enemy of Him who said, \u201cI am the Life,\u201d 5893 in accordance with which \u201cthe soul that sinneth, it shall die.\u201d 5894 But that it was not God who gave Him up into the hands of men, the Saviour manifestly declares when He says, \u201cIf My kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews.\u201d 5895 For, when He was delivered up to the Jews, He was delivered into the hands of men, not by His own servants, but by the prince of this age who says, concerning the powers which are in the sphere of the invisible, the kingdoms which are set up against men, \u201cAll these things will I give Thee, if Thou wilt fall down and worship Me.\u201d 5896 Wherefore also we should think that in regard to them it was said, \u201cThe kings of the earth stood side by side, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ.\u201d 5897 And those kings, indeed, and those rulers stood side by side and were gathered against the Lord and against His Christ; but we, because we have been benefited by His being delivered by them into the hands of men and slain, say, \u201cLet us break their p. 481 bonds asunder and cast away their yoke from us.\u201d 5898 For, when we become conformed to the death of Christ, we are no longer under the bonds of the kings of the earth, as we have said, nor under the yoke of the princes of this age, who were gathered together against the Lord. And, on this account, \u201cthe Father spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,\u201d 5899 that those, who took Him and delivered Him up into the hands of men, might be laughed at by Him who dwells in the heavens, and might be derided by the Lord, inasmuch as, contrary to their expectation, it was to the destruction of their own kingdom and power, that they received from the Father the Son, who was raised on the third day, by having abolished His enemy death, and made us conformed, not only to the image of His death but also of His resurrection; through whom we walk in newness of life, 5900 no longer sitting \u201cin the region and shadow of death,\u201d 5901 through the light of God which has sprung up upon us. But when the Saviour said, \u201cThe Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him, and the third day He shall rise again,\u201d they were \u201cexceeding sorry,\u201d 5902 giving heed to the fact that He was about to be delivered up into the hands of men, and that He would be killed, as matters gloomy and calling for sorrow, but not attending to the fact that He would rise on the third day, as He needed no longer time \u201cto bring to nought through death him that had the power of death.\u201d 5903","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol IX: Origen's Commentary on the G...","type":"page"}