Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But observe how, in his desire to subvert our opinions, he\r\nwho never acknowledged himself throughout his whole treatise\r\nto be an Epicurean, is convicted of being a deserter to that\r\nsect. And now is the time for you, [reader], who peruse the\r\nworks of Celsus, and give your assent to what has been advanced,\r\neither to overturn the belief in a God who visits the\r\nhuman race, and exercises a providence over each individual\r\nman, or to grant this, and prove the falsity of the assertions of\r\nCelsus. If you, then, wholly annihilate providence, you will\r\nfalsify those assertions of his in which he grants the existence\r\nof “God and a providence,” in order that you may maintain\r\nthe truth of your own position; but if, on the other hand, you\r\nstill admit the existence of providence, because you do not\r\nassent to the dictum of Celsus, that “neither has a God nor\r\nthe son of a God come down nor is to come down<a id=\"r848\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f848\"><sup>[848]</sup></a> to mankind,”\r\nwhy not rather carefully ascertain from the statements\r\nmade regarding Jesus, and the prophecies uttered concerning\r\nHim, who it is that we are to consider as having come down to\r\nthe human race as God, and the Son of God?—whether that\r\nJesus who said and ministered so much, or those who, under\r\npretence of oracles and divinations, do not reform the morals\r\nof their worshippers, but who have besides apostatized from the\r\npure and holy worship and honour due to the Maker of all\r\nthings, and who tear away the souls of those who give heed to\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_271\">271</span>them from the one only visible and true God, under a pretence\r\nof paying honour to a multitude of deities?</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter III."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-330"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"79bbf8037e252c6656d2a03f837e47b2e5691c00a3a6329bc440026c9f9ae013","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-f848","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":"f848","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f848\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r848\">848</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">κατέρχεσθαι.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f848","text_sha256":"cf67c4623fee4245514abdd309603dbfd3c57d406cf84ae25fc6128b3bc0bc97","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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