Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The argument of Celsus appears to point by these illustrations\r\nto this conclusion: that it is “an obligation incumbent on\r\nall men to live according to their country’s customs, in which\r\ncase they will escape censure; whereas the Christians, who have\r\nabandoned their native usages, and who are not one nation\r\nlike the Jews, are to be blamed for giving their adherence to\r\nthe teaching of Jesus.” Let him then tell us whether it is a\r\nbecoming thing for philosophers, and those who have been\r\ntaught not to yield to superstition, to abandon their country’s\r\ncustoms, so as to eat of those articles of food which are prohibited\r\nin their respective cities? or whether this proceeding\r\nof theirs is opposed to what is becoming? For if, on account\r\nof their philosophy, and the instructions which they have received\r\nagainst superstition, they should eat, in disregard of\r\ntheir native laws, what was interdicted by their fathers, why\r\nshould the Christians (since the gospel requires <i>them</i> not to\r\nbusy themselves about statues and images, or even about any of\r\nthe created works of God, but to ascend on high, and present\r\nthe soul to the Creator), when acting in a similar manner to\r\nthe philosophers, be censured for so doing? But if, for the\r\nsake of defending the theses which he has proposed to himself,\r\nCelsus, or those who think with him, should say, that even one\r\nwho had studied philosophy would keep his country’s laws, then\r\nphilosophers in Egypt, for example, would act most ridiculously\r\nin avoiding the eating of onions, in order to observe their\r\ncountry’s laws, or certain parts of the body, as the head and\r\nshoulders, in order not to transgress the traditions of their\r\nfathers. And I do not speak of those Egyptians who shudder\r\nwith fear at the discharge of wind from the body, because if\r\nany one of these were to become a philosopher, and still observe\r\nthe laws of his country, he would be a ridiculous philosopher,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_306\">306</span>acting very unphilosophically.<a id=\"r969\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f969\"><sup>[969]</sup></a> In the same way, then, he who\r\nhas been led by the gospel to worship the God of all things, and,\r\nfrom regard to his country’s laws, lingers here below among\r\nimages and statues of men, and does not desire to ascend to the\r\nCreator, will resemble those who have indeed learned philosophy,\r\nbut who are afraid of things which ought to inspire no\r\nterrors, and who regard it as an act of impiety to eat of those\r\nthings which have been enumerated.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-362"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cc5f8bfaad9f0cd8d02080bbd7a8340540054ec2cc548fad4e55b6a760dc249e","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-f969","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":"f969","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f969\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r969\">969</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">γέλοιος ἂν εἴη φιλόσοφος ἀφιλόσοφα πράττων.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f969","text_sha256":"6da2215f0be14a68d68f0ef93badce34168da08d22a395e854283c6bef243fdf","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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