Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, moreover, thinks that we have invented this “tree\r\nof life” to give an allegorical meaning to the cross; and in\r\nconsequence of his error upon this point, he adds: “If he had\r\nhappened to be cast down a precipice, or shoved into a pit, or\r\nsuffocated by hanging, there would have been invented a precipice\r\nof life far beyond the heavens, or a pit of resurrection, or\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_376\">376</span>a cord of immortality.” And again: “If the ‘tree of life’\r\nwere an invention, because he (Jesus) [is reported] to have\r\nbeen a carpenter, it would follow that if he had been a leather-cutter,\r\nsomething would have been said about holy leather;\r\nor had he been a stone-cutter, about a blessed stone; or if a\r\nworker in iron, about an iron of love.” Now, who does not see\r\nat once<a id=\"r1219\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1219\"><sup>[1219]</sup></a> the paltry nature of his charge, in thus calumniating\r\nmen whom he professed to convert on the ground of their\r\nbeing deceived? And after these remarks, he goes on to\r\nspeak in a way quite in harmony with the tone of those who\r\nhave invented the fictions of lion-like, and ass-headed, and serpent-like\r\nruling angels,<a id=\"r1220\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1220\"><sup>[1220]</sup></a> and other similar absurdities, but which\r\ndoes not affect those who belong to the church. Of a truth,\r\neven a drunken old woman would be ashamed to chaunt or\r\nwhisper to an infant, in order to lull him to sleep, any such\r\nfables as those have done who invented the beings with asses’\r\nheads, and the harangues, so to speak, which are delivered\r\nat each of the gates. But Celsus is not acquainted with the\r\ndoctrines of the members of the church, which very few have\r\nbeen able to comprehend, even of those who have devoted all\r\ntheir lives, in conformity with the command of Jesus, to the\r\nsearching of the Scriptures, and have laboured to investigate\r\nthe meaning of the sacred books, to a greater degree than Greek\r\nphilosophers in their efforts to attain a so-called wisdom.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XXXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-430"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b7d96b275fc92f6a0d761c77ee5d7bc0ee5988ba0dbf9819de3a5489107690da","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-f1220","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":"f1220","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1220\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1220\">1220</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἄρχοντας.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1220","text_sha256":"9da63603d1559e98beb5f773a9f39ff0f4131b7f4974f9755fa6170154f2766b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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