Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus next, for form’s sake,<a id=\"r687\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f687\"><sup>[687]</sup></a> and with great want of precision,\r\nspeaks of “the dreams of the chief butler and chief\r\nbaker, and of Pharaoh, and of the explanation of them, in consequence\r\nof which Joseph was taken out of prison in order to\r\nbe entrusted by Pharaoh with the second place in Egypt.”\r\nWhat absurdity, then, did the history contain, looked at even\r\nin itself, that it should be adduced as matter of accusation by\r\nthis Celsus, who gave the title of <i>True Discourse</i> to a treatise\r\nnot containing doctrines, but full of charges against Jews and\r\nChristians? He adds: “He who had been sold behaved kindly\r\nto his brethren (who had sold him), when they were suffering\r\nfrom hunger, and had been sent with their asses to purchase\r\n[provisions];” although he has not related these occurrences [in\r\nhis treatise]. But he <i>does</i> mention the circumstance of Joseph\r\nmaking himself known to his brethren, although I know not\r\nwith what view, or what absurdity he can point out in such an\r\noccurrence; since it is impossible for Momus himself, we might\r\nsay, to find any reasonable fault with events which, apart from\r\ntheir figurative meaning, present so much that is attractive.\r\nHe relates, further, that “Joseph, who had been sold as a slave,\r\nwas restored to liberty, and went up with a solemn procession\r\nto his father’s funeral,” and thinks that the narrative furnishes\r\nmatter of accusation against us, as he makes the following\r\nremark: “By whom (Joseph, namely) the illustrious and\r\ndivine nation of the Jews, after growing up in Egypt to be a\r\nmultitude of people, was commanded to sojourn somewhere\r\nbeyond the limits of the kingdom, and to pasture their flocks\r\nin districts of no repute.” Now the words, “that they were\r\ncommanded to pasture their flocks in districts of no repute,”\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_214\">214</span>are an addition, proceeding from his own feelings of hatred;\r\nfor he has not shown that Goshen, the district of Egypt, is a\r\nplace of no repute. The exodus of the people from Egypt he\r\ncalls a flight, not at all remembering what is written in the\r\nbook of Exodus regarding the departure of the Hebrews from\r\nthe land of Egypt. We have enumerated these instances to\r\nshow that what, literally considered, might appear to furnish\r\nground of accusation, Celsus has not succeeded in proving to\r\nbe either objectionable or foolish, having utterly failed to establish\r\nthe evil character, as he regards it, of our Scriptures.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XLVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-268"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"416e6a36ab56a3e1fec720018750e7f8c1d1ec314a943830b9f2665fd9545d3a","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-f687","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":"f687","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f687\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r687\">687</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ὁσίας ἕνεκεν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f687","text_sha256":"5243e4b85970d623c40e5b976d2c2928b0cf08633b03b6202bc1fda6bb81ef07","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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