Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">7. Moreover, I remember hearing from a learned Hebrew,\r\nsaid among themselves to be the son of a wise man, and to\r\nhave been specially trained to succeed his father, with whom\r\nI had intercourse on many subjects, the names of these\r\nelders, just as if he did not reject the History of Susanna,\r\nas they occur in Jeremia as follows: “The Lord make thee\r\nlike Zedekias and Achiab, whom the king of Babylon roasted\r\nin the fire, for the iniquity they did in Israel.”<a id=\"r1089\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1089\"><sup>[1089]</sup></a> How, then,\r\ncould the one be sawn asunder by an angel, and the other\r\nrent in pieces? The answer is, that these things were prophesied\r\nnot of this world, but of the judgment of God, after\r\nthe departure from this world. For as the lord of that\r\nwicked servant who says, “My lord delayeth his coming,”\r\nand so gives himself up to drunkenness, eating and drinking\r\nwith drunkards, and smiting his fellow-servants, shall at his\r\ncoming “cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with\r\nthe unbelievers,”<a id=\"r1090\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1090\"><sup>[1090]</sup></a> even so the angels appointed to punish will\r\naccomplish these things (just as they will cut asunder the\r\nwicked steward of that passage) on these men, who were\r\ncalled indeed elders, but who administered their stewardship\r\nwickedly. One will saw asunder him who was waxen old in\r\nwicked days, who had pronounced false judgment, condemning\r\nthe innocent, and letting the guilty go free;<a id=\"r1091\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1091\"><sup>[1091]</sup></a> and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_377\">377</span>another will rend in pieces him of the seed of Chanaan, and\r\nnot of Judah, whom beauty had deceived, and whose heart\r\nlust had perverted.<a id=\"r1092\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1092\"><sup>[1092]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","LETTERS.","A LETTER FROM ORIGEN TO AFRICANUS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-366"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0e37bfc07a2419563b8574597f034341543ecf16b883bd95e9bc0a4a88721632","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1091","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1091","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1091\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1091\">1091</a>.  </span>Susanna 52, 53.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1091","text_sha256":"0bd4c8b943fa119c70aeb1a3c50f71a33a02cf24acb6a582aa7c0a851ca4c76b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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