Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He next says of us, that “we ridicule those who worship\r\nJupiter, because his tomb is pointed out in the island of Crete;\r\nand yet we worship him who rose from the tomb,<a id=\"r373\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f373\"><sup>[373]</sup></a> although\r\nignorant of the grounds<a id=\"r374\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f374\"><sup>[374]</sup></a> on which the Cretans observe such a\r\ncustom.” Observe now that he thus undertakes the defence of\r\nthe Cretans, and of Jupiter, and of his tomb, alluding obscurely\r\nto the allegorical notions, in conformity with which the myth\r\nregarding Jupiter is said to have been invented; while he\r\nassails us who acknowledge that our Jesus has been buried,\r\nindeed, but who maintain that He has also been <i>raised</i> from\r\nthe tomb,—a statement which the Cretans have not yet made\r\nregarding Jupiter. But since he appears to admit that the\r\ntomb of Jupiter is in Crete, when he says that “we are ignorant\r\nof the grounds on which the Cretans observe such a custom,”\r\nwe reply that Callimachus the Cyrenian, who had read\r\ninnumerable poetic compositions, and nearly the whole of Greek\r\nhistory, was not acquainted with any allegorical meaning which\r\nwas contained in the stories about Jupiter and his tomb; and\r\naccordingly he accuses the Cretans in his hymn addressed to\r\nJupiter, in the words:<a id=\"r375\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f375\"><sup>[375]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XLIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-176"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ebbd9db6387be105985313b29e1131e837b8c0f845452130912e690cc9726ad7","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-f374","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":"f374","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f374\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r374\">374</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὐκ εἰδότες πῶς καὶ καθὸ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f374","text_sha256":"e8c1ed135f81a6873c535b851e4ec96a8ec7747b2c34d72ade2d759b7d7f0e15","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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