Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But seeing that we have answered to the best of our ability\r\nthe charges brought by Celsus against the Jews and their\r\ndoctrine, let us proceed to consider what follows, and to prove\r\nthat it is no empty boast on our part when we make a profession\r\nof knowing the great God, and that we have not been led\r\naway by any juggling tricks<a id=\"r1006\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1006\"><sup>[1006]</sup></a> of Moses (as Celsus imagines),\r\nor even of our own Saviour Jesus; but that for a good end we\r\nlisten to the God who speaks in Moses, and have accepted\r\nJesus, whom he testifies to be God, as the Son of God, in hope\r\nof receiving the best rewards if we regulate our lives according\r\nto His word. And we shall willingly pass over what we have\r\nalready stated by way of anticipation on the points, “whence\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_322\">322</span>we came, and who is our leader, and what law proceeded from\r\nHim.” And if Celsus would maintain that there is no difference\r\nbetween us and the Egyptians, who worship the goat, or\r\nthe ram, or the crocodile, or the ox, or the river-horse, or the\r\ndog-faced baboon,<a id=\"r1007\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1007\"><sup>[1007]</sup></a> or the cat, he can ascertain if it be so, and\r\nso may any other who thinks alike on the subject. We, however,\r\nhave to the best of our ability defended ourselves at great\r\nlength in the preceding pages on the subject of the honour\r\nwhich we render to our Jesus, pointing out that we have found\r\nthe better part;<a id=\"r1008\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1008\"><sup>[1008]</sup></a> and that in showing that the truth which is\r\ncontained in the teaching of Jesus Christ is pure and unmixed\r\nwith error, we are not commending ourselves, but our Teacher,\r\nto whom testimony was borne through many witnesses by the\r\nSupreme God and the prophetic writings among the Jews, and\r\nby the very clearness of the case itself, for it is demonstrated\r\nthat He could not have accomplished such mighty works without\r\nthe divine help.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter LI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-379"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b6c8746fef8ab5d7cea150435f6100fc8fe6061b47ecc3b8ec4a415a6e90e64e","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-f1008","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":"f1008","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1008\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1008\">1008</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ὅτι κρεῖττον εὕρομεν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1008","text_sha256":"aa5ebade54fdaa2e7b1c07c5a192d7df644b12d7b10051f097a988cb7a3f6ecb","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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