Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Let it be supposed, however, that he had not read the prophecy,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_419\">419</span>or that he <i>had</i> read it, but had been drawn away by\r\nthose who misinterpreted it as not being spoken of Jesus Christ.\r\nWhat has he to say of the Gospel, in the narratives of which\r\nJesus ascended up into a high mountain, and was transfigured\r\nbefore the disciples, and was seen in glory, when both Moses\r\nand Elias, “being seen in glory, spake of the decease which He\r\nwas about to accomplish at Jerusalem?” or when the prophet\r\nsays, “We beheld Him, and He had no form nor beauty,” etc.?\r\nand Celsus accepts this prophecy as referring to Jesus, being\r\nblinded in so accepting it, and not seeing that it is a great\r\nproof that the Jesus who appeared to be “without form” was\r\nthe Son of God, that His very appearance should have been\r\nmade the subject of prophecy many years before His birth.\r\nBut if another prophet speak of His comeliness and beauty, he\r\nwill no longer accept the prophecy as referring to Christ!\r\nAnd if it were to be clearly ascertained from the Gospels that\r\n“He had no form nor beauty, but that His appearance was\r\nwithout honour, and inferior to that of the sons of men,” it\r\nmight be said that it was not with reference to the prophetic\r\nwritings, but to the Gospels, that Celsus made his remarks.\r\nBut now, as neither the Gospels nor the apostolic writings indicate\r\nthat “He had no form nor beauty,” it is evident that we\r\nmust accept the declaration of the prophets as true of Christ,\r\nand this will prevent the charge against Jesus from being\r\nadvanced.<a id=\"r1413\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1413\"><sup>[1413]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXXVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-471"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8d722f8bce8a8c258ec868daff882994d749e24ee88fe152e8c7b890b7e3db5a","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-f1413","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":"f1413","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1413\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1413\">1413</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">προβαίνειν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1413","text_sha256":"68d71c6bc71ac866f43c501a1fa972c0c36f8228dc4d53701f3c42893f0dcf19","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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