Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After the matter of the Diagram, he brings forward certain\r\nmonstrous statements, in the form of question and answer,<a id=\"r1171\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1171\"><sup>[1171]</sup></a>\r\nregarding what is called by ecclesiastical writers the “seal,”\r\nstatements which did not arise from imperfect information;\r\nsuch as that “he who impresses the seal is called father, and\r\nhe who is sealed is called young man and son;” and who\r\nanswers, “I have been anointed with white ointment from the\r\ntree of life,”—things which we never heard to have occurred\r\neven among the heretics. In the next place, he determines\r\neven the number mentioned by those who deliver over the seal,\r\nas that “of <i>seven</i> angels, who attach themselves to both sides of\r\nthe soul of the dying body; the one party being named angels\r\nof light, the others ‘archontics;’”<a id=\"r1172\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1172\"><sup>[1172]</sup></a> and he asserts that the\r\n“ruler of those named ‘archontics’ is termed the ‘accursed’\r\nGod.” Then, laying hold of the expression, he assails, not\r\nwithout reason, those who venture to use such language; and\r\non that account we entertain a similar feeling of indignation\r\nwith those who censure such individuals, if indeed there exist\r\nany who call the God of the Jews—who sends rain and thunder,\r\nand who is the Creator of this world, and the God of Moses, and\r\nof the cosmogony which he records—an “accursed” divinity.\r\nCelsus, however, appears to have had in view, in employing\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_366\">366</span>these expressions, not a <i>rational</i><a id=\"r1173\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1173\"><sup>[1173]</sup></a> object, but one of a most\r\nirrational kind, arising out of his hatred towards us, which is\r\nso unlike a philosopher. For his aim was, that those who are\r\nunacquainted with our customs should, on perusing his treatise,\r\nat once assail us as if we called the noble Creator of this world\r\nan “accursed divinity.” He appears to me, indeed, to have\r\nacted like those Jews who, when Christianity began to be first\r\npreached, scattered abroad false reports of the gospel, such as\r\nthat “Christians offered up an infant in sacrifice, and partook\r\nof its flesh;” and again, “that the professors of Christianity,\r\nwishing to do the ‘works of darkness,’ used to extinguish the\r\nlights [in their meetings], and each one to have sexual intercourse\r\nwith any woman whom he chanced to meet.” These\r\ncalumnies have long exercised, although unreasonably, an influence\r\nover the minds of very many, leading those who are aliens\r\nto the gospel to believe that Christians are men of such a\r\ncharacter; and even at the present day they mislead some, and\r\nprevent them from entering even into the simple intercourse of\r\nconversation with those who are Christians.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-420"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b88567ea2ea6add657b44ed0ed423f31b702b4d7a74012a556bed3e99d32689f","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-f1173","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":"f1173","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1173\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1173\">1173</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὐκ εὔγνωμον ἀλλά ... πάνυ ἀγνωμονέστατον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1173","text_sha256":"50bbea715f100766e3ff1e369d7c939575c1a1b5496694c195ecab8a2ad24863","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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