Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c015\">It is with a certain eloquence,<a id=\"r1146\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1146\"><sup>[1146]</sup></a> indeed, that he appears to\r\nadvocate the cause of those who bear witness to the truth of\r\nChristianity by their death, in the following words: “And I\r\ndo not maintain that if a man, who has adopted a system of\r\ngood doctrine, is to incur danger from men on that account,\r\nhe should either apostatize, or feign apostasy, or openly deny\r\nhis opinions.” And he condemns those who, while holding\r\nthe Christian views, either pretend that they do not, or deny\r\nthem, saying that “he who holds a certain opinion ought not\r\nto feign recantation, or publicly disown it.” And here Celsus\r\nmust be convicted of self-contradiction. For from other\r\ntreatises of his it is ascertained that he was an Epicurean;\r\nbut here, because he thought that he could assail Christianity\r\nwith better effect by not professing the opinions of Epicurus,\r\nhe pretends that there is a something better in man than\r\nthe earthly part of his nature, which is akin to God, and\r\nsays that “they in whom this element, viz. the soul, is in a\r\nhealthy condition, are ever seeking after their kindred nature,\r\nmeaning God, and are ever desiring to hear something about\r\nHim, and to call it to remembrance.” Observe now the insincerity\r\nof his character! Having said a little before, that\r\n“the man who had embraced a system of good doctrine ought\r\nnot, even if exposed to danger on that account from men, to\r\ndisavow it, or pretend that he had done so, nor yet openly\r\ndisown it,” he now involves himself in all manner of contradictions.\r\nFor he knew that if he acknowledged himself an\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_405\">405</span>Epicurean, he would not obtain any credit when accusing\r\nthose who, in any degree, introduce the doctrine of Providence,\r\nand who place a God over the world. And we\r\nhave heard that there were two individuals of the name of\r\nCelsus, both of whom were Epicureans; the earlier of the\r\ntwo having lived in the time of Nero, but this one in that of\r\nAdrian, and later.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter VIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-406"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a6d190d7e5cc4e86f746e37a2d443579a7d95cebca4d970cd32e701582db39bc","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1146","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":"f1146","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1146\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1146\">1146</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">δεινότητος.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1146","text_sha256":"007d65798ae71b0572f56bf467ac0d8a5be424b93fb90c9db051007eac1cc183","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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