Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">And challenging a comparison of book with book, I would\r\nsay, “Come now, good sir, take down the poems of Linus, and\r\nof Musæus, and of Orpheus, and the writings of Pherecydes,\r\nand carefully compare these with the laws of Moses—histories\r\nwith histories, and ethical discourses with laws and commandments—and\r\nsee which of the two are the better fitted to\r\nchange the character of the hearer on the very spot, and\r\nwhich to harden<a id=\"r1159\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1159\"><sup>[1159]</sup></a> him in his wickedness; and observe that\r\nyour series of writers display little concern for those readers\r\nwho are to peruse them at once unaided,<a id=\"r1160\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1160\"><sup>[1160]</sup></a> but have composed\r\ntheir philosophy (as you term it) for those who are able to\r\ncomprehend its metaphorical and allegorical signification;\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_416\">416</span>whereas Moses, like a distinguished orator who meditates\r\nsome figure of Rhetoric, and who carefully introduces in\r\nevery part language of twofold meaning, has done this in\r\nhis five books: neither affording, in the portion which relates\r\nto morals, any handle to his Jewish subjects for committing\r\nevil; nor yet giving to the few individuals who were endowed\r\nwith greater wisdom, and who were capable of investigating\r\nhis meaning, a treatise devoid of material for speculation.\r\nBut of your learned poets the very writings would seem no\r\nlonger to be preserved, although they would have been carefully\r\ntreasured up if the readers had perceived any benefit\r\n[likely to be derived from them]; whereas the works of\r\nMoses have stirred up many, who were even aliens to the\r\nmanners of the Jews, to the belief that, as these writings\r\ntestify, the first who enacted these laws and delivered them\r\nto Moses, was the God who was the Creator of the world.\r\nFor it became the Creator of the universe, after laying down\r\nlaws for its government, to confer upon His words a power\r\nwhich might subdue all men in every part of the earth.\r\nAnd this I maintain, having as yet entered into no investigation\r\nregarding Jesus, but still demonstrating that Moses,\r\nwho is far inferior to the Lord, is, as the <i>Discourse</i> will show,\r\ngreatly superior to your wise poets and philosophers.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter XVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-416"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"86bd1144f62d0e7bbe473d0e74a468e3d195a051cf9bb96a3822aa3aa8a24727","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1160","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":"f1160","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1160\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1160\">1160</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">αὐτόθεν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1160","text_sha256":"752cd48cb15f99b1fb75d33e3d2686577476179fead986e110f688f6a0f21a09","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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