Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this, selecting from all the treatises which contain\r\nallegorical explanations and interpretations, expressed in a language\r\nand style not to be despised, the least important,<a id=\"r704\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f704\"><sup>[704]</sup></a> such\r\nas might contribute, indeed, to strengthen the faith of the\r\nmultitude of simple believers, but were not adapted to impress\r\nthose of more intelligent mind, he continues: “Of such a\r\nnature do I know the work to be, entitled <i>Controversy between\r\none Papiscus and Jason</i>, which is fitted to excite pity and hatred\r\ninstead of laughter. It is not my purpose, however, to confute\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_219\">219</span>the statements contained in such works; for their fallacy is\r\nmanifest to all, especially if any one will have the patience to\r\nread the books themselves. Rather do I wish to show that\r\nNature teaches this, that God made nothing that is mortal, but\r\nthat His works, whatever they are, are immortal, and theirs\r\nmortal. And the soul<a id=\"r705\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f705\"><sup>[705]</sup></a> is the work of God, while the nature\r\nof the body is different. And in this respect there is no difference\r\nbetween the body of a bat, or of a worm, or of a frog,\r\nand that of a man; for the matter<a id=\"r706\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f706\"><sup>[706]</sup></a> is the same, and their corruptible\r\npart is alike.” Nevertheless I could wish that every\r\none who heard Celsus declaiming and asserting that the treatise\r\nentitled <i>Controversy between Jason and Papiscus regarding\r\nChrist</i> was fitted to excite not laughter, but hatred, could take\r\nthe work into his hands, and patiently listen to its contents;\r\nthat, finding in it nothing to excite hatred, he might condemn\r\nCelsus out of the book itself. For if it be impartially perused,\r\nit will be found that there is nothing to excite even laughter in\r\na work in which a Christian is described as conversing with a\r\nJew on the subject of the Jewish Scriptures, and proving that\r\nthe predictions regarding Christ fitly apply to Jesus; although\r\nthe other disputant maintains the discussion in no ignoble style,\r\nand in a manner not unbecoming the character of a Jew.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-273"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fe60eb22056847a727c21bdcd6a0a8d81d9cd923828a8ecf23dc8b5a0b93af5a","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-f705","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":"f705","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f705\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r705\">705</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ψυχὴ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f705","text_sha256":"7d1778a3b7dcc249b2feba5bca2edb9cd3f00417d8b97dc5de1dd6145861efa5","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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