Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">And next, I imagine that you are most desirous of hearing\r\nsomething on this point, that the Christians do not observe\r\nthe same forms of divine worship as do the Jews. The Jews,\r\nthen, if they abstain from the kind of service above described,\r\nand deem it proper to worship one God as being Lord of all,\r\n[are right]; but if they offer Him worship in the way which we\r\nhave described, they greatly err. For while the Gentiles, by\r\noffering such things to those that are destitute of sense and\r\nhearing, furnish an example of madness; they, on the other\r\nhand, by thinking to offer these things to God as if He needed\r\nthem, might justly reckon it rather an act of folly than of\r\ndivine worship. For He that made heaven and earth, and all\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_306\">306</span>that is therein, and gives to us all the things of which we\r\nstand in need, certainly requires none of those things which He\r\nHimself bestows on such as think of furnishing them to Him.\r\nBut those who imagine that, by means of blood, and the smoke\r\nof sacrifices and burnt-offerings, they offer sacrifices [acceptable]\r\nto Him, and that by such honours they show Him\r\nrespect,—these, by<a id=\"r1473\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1473\"><sup>[1473]</sup></a> supposing that they can give anything to\r\nHim who stands in need of nothing, appear to me in no\r\nrespect to differ from those who studiously confer the same\r\nhonour on things destitute of sense, and which therefore are\r\nunable to enjoy such honours.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS.","THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS.","Chap. iii.—Superstitions of the Jews."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-636"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"17736f20a6e0d1d56b1aae6088e67f82eb153401723c9e74b9cd5e9bca120239","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1473","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. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1473","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1473\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1473\">1473</a>.  </span>The text is here very doubtful. We have followed that adopted by\r\nmost critics.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1473","text_sha256":"108372dd26539e85d8ac281b7c14366dec7cdb6f964c2c71b452763c5864974d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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