Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But that the object of Christianity<a id=\"r377\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f377\"><sup>[377]</sup></a> is that we should become\r\nwise, can be proved not only from the ancient Jewish\r\nwritings, which <i>we</i> also use, but especially from those which\r\nwere composed after the time of Jesus, and which are believed\r\namong the churches to be divine. Now, in the fiftieth Psalm,\r\nDavid is described as saying in his prayer to God these words:\r\n“The unseen and secret things of Thy wisdom Thou hast\r\nmanifested to me.”<a id=\"r378\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f378\"><sup>[378]</sup></a> Solomon, too, because he asked for\r\nwisdom, received it; and if any one were to peruse the Psalms,\r\nhe would find the book filled with many maxims of wisdom;\r\nand the evidences of his wisdom may be seen in his treatises,\r\nwhich contain a great amount of wisdom expressed in few\r\nwords, and in which you will find many laudations of wisdom,\r\nand encouragements towards obtaining it. So wise, moreover,\r\nwas Solomon, that “the queen of Sheba, having heard his\r\nname, and the name of the Lord, came to try him with difficult\r\nquestions, and spake to him all things, whatsoever were in her\r\nheart; and Solomon answered her all her questions. There\r\nwas no question omitted by the king which he did not answer\r\nher. And the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon,\r\nand the possessions which he had,<a id=\"r379\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f379\"><sup>[379]</sup></a> and there was no more\r\nspirit in her.<a id=\"r380\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f380\"><sup>[380]</sup></a> And she said to the king, The report is\r\ntrue which I heard in mine own land regarding thee and thy\r\nwisdom; and I believed not them who told me, until I had\r\ncome, and mine eyes have seen it. And, lo, they did not tell\r\nme the half. Thou hast added wisdom and possessions above\r\nall the report which I heard.”<a id=\"r381\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f381\"><sup>[381]</sup></a> It is recorded also of him, that\r\n“God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding\r\nmuch, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the\r\nsea-shore. And the wisdom that was in Solomon greatly\r\nexcelled the wisdom of all the ancients, and of all the wise men\r\nof Egypt; and he was wiser than all men, even than Gethan\r\nthe Ezrahite, and Emad, and Chalcadi, and Aradab, the sons\r\nof Madi. And he was famous among all the nations round\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_127\">127</span>about. And Solomon spake three thousand proverbs, and his\r\nsongs were five thousand. And he spake of trees, from the\r\ncedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop which springeth\r\nout of the wall; and also of fishes and of beasts. And all\r\nnations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all\r\nthe kings of the earth who had heard of the fame of his\r\nwisdom.”<a id=\"r382\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f382\"><sup>[382]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XLV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-180"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9de3576717e65baee56f390671346cbd284941ab06672ce0f955b180735d7a7f","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-f380","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":"f380","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f380\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r380\">380</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">καὶ ἐξ αὑτῆς ἐγένετο.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f380","text_sha256":"24ae9ad62eb0513c512a6e80be645b2a1008b14d4b432dae66ee8f5d8caaa82c","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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