Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In order to show that he had read the book of Genesis, Celsus\r\nrejects the story of the dove, although unable to adduce any\r\nreason which might prove it to be a fiction. In the next place,\r\nas his habit is, in order to put the narrative in a more ridiculous\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_208\">208</span>light, he converts the “raven” into a “crow,” and imagines that\r\nMoses so wrote, having recklessly altered the accounts related\r\nof the Grecian Deucalion; unless perhaps he regards the narrative\r\nas not having proceeded from Moses, but from <i>several</i>\r\nindividuals, as appears from his employing the <i>plural</i> number\r\nin the expressions, “falsifying and recklessly altering the story\r\nof Deucalion,”<a id=\"r660\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f660\"><sup>[660]</sup></a> as well as from the words, “For <i>they</i> did not\r\nexpect, I suppose, that these things would come to light.” But\r\nhow should they, who gave their Scriptures to the <i>whole</i> nation,\r\nnot expect that they would come to light, and who predicted,\r\nmoreover, that this religion should be proclaimed to <i>all</i> nations?\r\nJesus declared, “The kingdom of God shall be taken from\r\nyou, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof;”<a id=\"r661\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f661\"><sup>[661]</sup></a>\r\nand in uttering these words to the Jews, what other meaning\r\ndid He intend to convey than this, viz. that He Himself should,\r\nthrough His divine power, bring forth into light the whole of\r\nthe Jewish Scriptures, which contain the mysteries of the kingdom\r\nof God? If, then, they peruse the Theogonies of the\r\nGreeks, and the stories about the twelve gods, they impart to\r\nthem an air of dignity, by investing them with an allegorical\r\nsignification; but when they wish to throw contempt upon our\r\nbiblical narratives, they assert that they are fables, clumsily\r\ninvented for infant children!</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XLII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-263"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"46fb0a48a064e80933ccf3238fbc067ed53b1e295f2a9f62d153f54a567786ee","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-f660","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":"f660","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f660\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r660\">660</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">παραχαράττοντες καὶ ῥᾳδιουργοῦντες.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f660","text_sha256":"a45f6a79e82d048eced8c512c7ddcde2b4ff49f788575e92b3c3c498e91af7a1","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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