Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus in the next place, as if he were able to tell certain\r\nsecrets regarding the origin of evils, but chose rather to keep\r\nsilence, and say only what was suitable to the multitude, continues\r\nas follows: “It is sufficient to say to the multitude\r\nregarding the origin of evils, that they do not proceed from\r\nGod, but cleave to matter, and dwell among mortal things.”\r\nIt is true, certainly, that evils do not proceed from God; for\r\naccording to Jeremiah, one of our prophets, it is certain that\r\n“out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil\r\nand good.”<a id=\"r747\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f747\"><sup>[747]</sup></a> But to maintain that matter, dwelling among\r\nmortal things, is the cause of evils, is in our opinion not true.\r\nFor it is the mind of each individual which is the cause of the\r\nevil which arises in him, and this is evil in the abstract;<a id=\"r748\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f748\"><sup>[748]</sup></a> while\r\nthe actions which proceed from it are wicked, and there is, to\r\nspeak with accuracy, nothing else in our view that is evil. I\r\nam aware, however, that this topic requires very elaborate treatment,\r\nwhich (by the grace of God enlightening the mind)\r\nmay be successfully attempted by him who is deemed by God\r\nworthy to attain the necessary knowledge on this subject.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LXVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-287"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ca2c1dd8ee229f4d8fee3306e66aa3f762a6ba5ae02ccf35c9a65b4600018519","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-f748","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":"f748","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f748\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r748\">748</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἥτις ἐστὶ τὸ κακόν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f748","text_sha256":"bdff6fd28780007959e9c6258d667df9ec4e8b5ca96c9a3be7d0e2954621dd3d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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