parts but a real whole. But Jesus is the Son, and one must distinguish whether the Father, the Son, or the Spirit are spoken of, for the Father does not have a body, nor does the Spirit. Ironically, the Mormons make just the mistake Aristobulus warns Ptolemy from, for they claim that since hands and arms and legs are spoken of in the Old Testament, the Father must have a body too. In that case, He also has wings and very bad breath (Exodus 19:4; Isaiah 11:4). Such is the ludicrousness of taking a metaphor literally.
Origen draws an intriguing metaphor out of the story of Hagar and Ishmael, and Isaac and Sarah, but not the one Paul used in Galatians. Here Origen focuses not on sonship but on water, another common symbol in the Old and New Testaments. The New Testament "well of living water" Jesus spoke of (John 4:14) is applied alongside the Old Testament (Proverbs 5:15) symbol of water and wells that is used in the context of sex (the "strange woman" of v. 3).
This verse brings up a question of translation. Proverbs 5:16 in the KJV and in Origen her
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