Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But since he reproaches us with too great an anxiety about\r\nthe body, let him know that when that feeling is a wrong one\r\nwe do not share in it, and when it is indifferent we only long\r\nfor that which God has promised to the righteous. But Celsus\r\nconsiders that we are inconsistent with ourselves when we count\r\nthe body worthy of honour from God, and therefore hope for\r\nits resurrection, and yet at the same time expose it to tortures\r\nas though it were not worthy of honour. But surely it is not\r\nwithout honour for the body to suffer for the sake of godliness,\r\nand to choose afflictions on account of virtue: the dishonourable\r\nthing would be for it to waste its powers in vicious indulgence.\r\nFor the divine word says: “What is an honourable\r\nseed? The seed of man. What is a dishonourable seed? The\r\nseed of man.”<a id=\"r1652\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1652\"><sup>[1652]</sup></a> Moreover, Celsus thinks that he ought not to\r\nreason with those who hope for the good of the body, as they\r\nare unreasonably intent upon an object which can never satisfy\r\ntheir expectations. He also calls them gross and impure men,\r\nbent upon creating needless dissensions. But surely he ought,\r\nas one of superior humanity, to assist even the rude and depraved.\r\nFor society does not exclude from its pale the coarse\r\nand uncultivated, as it does the irrational animals, but our\r\nCreator made us on the same common level with all mankind.\r\nIt is not an undignified thing, therefore, to reason even with the\r\ncoarse and unrefined, and to try to bring them as far as possible\r\nto a higher state of refinement—to bring the impure to\r\nthe highest practicable degree of purity—to bring the unreasoning\r\nmultitude to reason, and the diseased in mind to spiritual health.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter L."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-597"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"41cd9e8590c781cb2ca0ed419da602da6ba515119d7e2cff8a721ef197df499a","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"SIR","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. x. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1652","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":"f1652","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1652\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1652\">1652</a>.  </span><abbr title=\"Ecclesiasticus\">Ecclus.</abbr> <abbr title=\"ten\">x.</abbr> 19. In the <abbr title=\"Septuagint\">LXX.</abbr> the last clause is, “What is a dishonourable\r\nseed? They that transgress the commandments.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1652","text_sha256":"d24d46b3ec74eb285aa2d06ab053bc91d5ffede4754364e27b9488a1225d6114","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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