Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And do not suppose that it is not in keeping with the\r\nChristian religion for me to have accepted, against Celsus, the\r\nopinions of those philosophers who have treated of the immortality\r\nor after-duration of the soul; for, holding certain views\r\nin common with them, we shall more conveniently establish\r\nour position, that the future life of blessedness shall be for\r\nthose only who have accepted the religion which is according\r\nto Jesus, and that devotion towards the Creator of all things\r\nwhich is pure and sincere, and unmingled with any created\r\nthing whatever. And let him who likes show what “better\r\nthings” we persuade men to despise, and let him compare the\r\nblessed end with God in Christ,—that is, the word, and the\r\nwisdom, and all virtue,—which, according to our view, shall be\r\nbestowed, by the gift of God, on those who have lived a pure\r\nand blameless life, and who have felt a single and undivided\r\nlove for the God of all things, with that end which is to\r\nfollow according to the teaching of each philosophic sect,\r\nwhether it be Greek or barbarian, or according to the professions\r\nof religious mysteries;<a id=\"r474\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f474\"><sup>[474]</sup></a> and let him prove that the\r\nend which is predicted by any of the others is superior to that\r\nwhich we promise, and consequently that that is true, and ours\r\nnot befitting the gift of God, nor those who have lived a good\r\nlife; or let him prove that these words were not spoken by the\r\ndivine Spirit, who filled the souls of the holy prophets. And\r\nlet him who likes show that those words which are acknowledged\r\namong all men to be human, are superior to those which\r\nare proved to be divine, and uttered by inspiration. And what\r\nare the “better” things from which we teach those who receive\r\nthem that it would be better to abstain? For if it be not\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_160\">160</span>arrogant so to speak, it is self-evident that nothing can be\r\ndenied which is better than to entrust oneself to the God of all,\r\nand yield oneself up to the doctrine which raises us above all\r\ncreated things, and brings us, through the animate and living\r\nword—which is also living wisdom and the Son of God—to\r\nGod who is over all. However, as the third book of our\r\nanswers to the treatise of Celsus has extended to a sufficient\r\nlength, we shall here bring our present remarks to a close, and\r\nin what is to follow shall meet what Celsus has subsequently\r\nwritten.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXXXI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-219"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"be954a451da43da4f1b7a8efd5cdba1f86b590c5757aee3959553621ae32944d","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-f474","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":"f474","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f474\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r474\">474</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τῷ καθ’ ἑκάστην φιλοσόφων αἵρεσιν ἐν Ἕλλησιν ἢ βαρβάροις, ἢ μυστηριώδη\r\nἐπαγγελίαν, τέλει.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f474","text_sha256":"508fc082f3c559ed489ce37b0909bb2b12c8b890a5ea97f0d6f5dd0a4a08e5c8","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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