Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But will not those narratives, especially when they are understood\r\nin their proper sense, appear far more worthy of respect\r\nthan the story that Dionysus was deceived by the Titans, and\r\nexpelled from the throne of Jupiter, and torn in pieces by them,\r\nand his remains being afterwards put together again, he returned\r\nas it were once more to life, and ascended to heaven?\r\nOr are the Greeks at liberty to refer such stories to the doctrine\r\nof the soul, and to interpret them figuratively, while the door\r\nof a consistent explanation, and one everywhere in accord and\r\nharmony with the writings of the Divine Spirit, who had His\r\nabode in pure souls, is closed against <i>us</i>? Celsus, then, is altogether\r\nignorant of the purpose of our writings, and it is therefore\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_177\">177</span>upon his own acceptation of them that he casts discredit,\r\nand not upon their real meaning; whereas, if he had reflected\r\non what is appropriate<a id=\"r538\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f538\"><sup>[538]</sup></a> to a soul which is to enjoy an everlasting\r\nlife, and on the opinion which we are to form of its essence\r\nand principles, he would not so have ridiculed the entrance\r\nof the immortal into a mortal body, which took place not\r\naccording to the metempsychosis of Plato, but agreeably to\r\nanother and higher view of things. And he would have observed\r\none “descent,” distinguished by its great benevolence,\r\nundertaken to convert (as the Scripture mystically terms them)\r\nthe “lost sheep of the house of Israel,” which had strayed down\r\nfrom the mountains, and to which the Shepherd is said in\r\ncertain parables to have gone down, leaving on the mountains\r\nthose “which had not strayed.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-236"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6384129d5892d8f1e34e16d964425cc6c8ada947b3ff76057d8974a20665ba4e","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-f538","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":"f538","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f538\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r538\">538</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τί ἀκολουθεῖ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f538","text_sha256":"4b4f01dffb44c217a208051b29b5a399480f6d78210488e943077907f8b463ac","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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