Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">According to Celsus, then, Apollo wished the Metapontines\r\nto treat Aristeas as a god. But as the Metapontines considered\r\nthe evidence in favour of Aristeas being a man—and\r\nprobably not a virtuous one—to be stronger than the declaration\r\nof the oracle to the effect that he was a god or worthy of\r\ndivine honours, they for that reason would not obey Apollo,\r\nand consequently no one regarded Aristeas as a god. But with\r\nrespect to Jesus we would say that, as it was of advantage to\r\nthe human race to accept him as the Son of God—God come\r\nin a human soul and body—and as this did not seem to be\r\nadvantageous to the gluttonous appetites<a id=\"r330\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f330\"><sup>[330]</sup></a> of the demons which\r\nlove bodies, and to those who deem them to be gods on that\r\naccount, the demons that are on earth (which are supposed\r\nto be gods by those who are not instructed in the nature of\r\ndemons), and also their worshippers, were desirous to prevent\r\nthe spread of the doctrine of Jesus; for they saw that the\r\nlibations and odours in which they greedily delighted were\r\nbeing swept away by the prevalence of the instructions of\r\nJesus. But the God who sent Jesus dissipated all the conspiracies\r\nof the demons, and made the gospel of Jesus to\r\nprevail throughout the whole world for the conversion and\r\nreformation of men, and caused churches to be everywhere\r\nestablished in opposition to those of superstitious and licentious\r\nand wicked men; for such is the character of the multitudes\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_111\">111</span>who constitute the citizens<a id=\"r331\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f331\"><sup>[331]</sup></a> in the assemblies of the various\r\ncities. Whereas the churches of God which are instructed by\r\nChrist, when carefully contrasted with the assemblies of the\r\ndistricts in which they are situated, are as beacons<a id=\"r332\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f332\"><sup>[332]</sup></a> in the\r\nworld; for who would not admit that even the inferior members\r\nof the church, and those who in comparison with the\r\nbetter are less worthy, are nevertheless more excellent than\r\nmany of those who belong to the assemblies in the different\r\ndistricts?</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-162"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"80570513c0d78d3e949b66cee354685121a74bf4fb75b83c38fda2a51b3c1b6c","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-f330","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":"f330","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f330\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r330\">330</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">λιχνείᾳ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f330","text_sha256":"df90c412633e3e395cb3db03530d8008c896b2ea9be40d100e4ced128a7f0074","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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