Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But further, since Celsus will have it that “Jesus was not\r\nirreproachable,” let him instance any one of those who adhere\r\nto His doctrine, who has recorded anything that could truly\r\nfurnish ground of reproach against Jesus; or if it be not from\r\nthese that he derives his matter of accusation against Him, let\r\nhim say from what quarter he has learned that which has induced\r\nhim to say that He is not free from reproach. Jesus,\r\nhowever, performed all that He promised to do, and by which\r\nHe conferred benefits upon His adherents. And we, continually\r\nseeing fulfilled all that was predicted by Him before it\r\nhappened, viz. that this gospel of His should be preached\r\nthroughout the whole world, and that His disciples should go\r\namong all nations and announce His doctrine; and, moreover,\r\nthat they should be brought before governors and kings on no\r\nother account than because of His teaching; we are lost in\r\nwonder at Him, and have our faith in Him daily confirmed.\r\nAnd I know not by what greater or more convincing proofs\r\nCelsus would have Him confirm His predictions; unless, indeed,\r\nas seems to be the case, not understanding that the Logos\r\nhad become the man Jesus, he would have Him to be subject\r\nto no human weakness, nor to become an illustrious pattern to\r\nmen of the manner in which they ought to bear the calamities\r\nof life, although these appear to Celsus to be most lamentable\r\nand disgraceful occurrences, seeing that he regards labour<a id=\"r128\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f128\"><sup>[128]</sup></a> to\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_45\">45</span>be the greatest of evils, and pleasure the perfect good,—a view\r\naccepted by none of those philosophers who admit the doctrine\r\nof providence, and who allow that courage, and fortitude, and\r\nmagnanimity are virtues. Jesus, therefore, by His sufferings\r\ncast no discredit upon the faith of which He was the object;\r\nbut rather confirmed the same among those who would approve\r\nof manly courage, and among those who were taught by Him\r\nthat what was truly and properly the happy life was not here\r\nbelow, but was to be found in that which was called, according\r\nto His own words, the “coming world;” whereas in what is\r\ncalled the “present world” life is a calamity, or at least the\r\nfirst and greatest struggle of the soul.<a id=\"r129\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f129\"><sup>[129]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XLII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-86"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"497dc04a414fa87663c2d02b2047c815ed49d8f91632dd0cc96c96e90f60baf4","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f129","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f129","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f129\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r129\">129</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἀγῶνα τὸν πρῶτον καὶ μέγιστον τῆς ψυχῆς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f129","text_sha256":"0ac6e34524b98db6a8716eeb8372c0d0e9eccff1023d97c18d4719f0306f607f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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