Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the following way, also, we may conclude that they who\r\ncame out of Egypt with Moses were not Egyptians; for if they\r\nhad been Egyptians, their <i>names</i> also would be Egyptian,\r\nbecause in every language the designations [of persons and\r\nthings] are kindred to the language.<a id=\"r267\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f267\"><sup>[267]</sup></a> But if it is certain, from\r\nthe names being Hebrew, that the people were not Egyptians,—and\r\nthe Scriptures are full of Hebrew names, and these bestowed,\r\ntoo, upon their children while they were in Egypt,—it\r\nis clear that the Egyptian account is false, which asserts that\r\nthey were Egyptians, and went forth from Egypt with Moses.\r\nNow it is absolutely certain<a id=\"r268\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f268\"><sup>[268]</sup></a> that, being descended, as the\r\nMosaic history records, from Hebrew ancestors, they employed\r\na language from which they also took the names which they\r\nconferred upon their children. But with regard to the Christians,\r\nbecause they were taught not to avenge themselves\r\nupon their enemies (and have thus observed laws of a mild and\r\nphilanthropic character); and because they would not, although\r\nable, have made war even if they had received authority to do\r\nso,—they have obtained this reward from God, that He has\r\nalways warred in their behalf, and on certain occasions has\r\nrestrained those who rose up against them and desired to\r\ndestroy them. For in order to remind others, that by seeing a\r\n<i>few</i> engaged in a struggle for their religion, they also might be\r\nbetter fitted to despise death, some, on special occasions, and\r\nthese individuals who can be easily numbered, have endured\r\ndeath for the sake of Christianity,—God not permitting the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_92\">92</span>whole nation to be exterminated, but desiring that it should\r\ncontinue, and that the whole world should be filled with this\r\nsalutary and religious doctrine. And again, on the other hand,\r\nthat those who were of weaker minds might recover their\r\ncourage and rise superior to the thought of death, God interposed\r\nHis providence on behalf of believers, dispersing by an\r\nact of His will alone all the conspiracies formed against them;\r\nso that neither kings, nor rulers, nor the populace, might be\r\nable to rage against them beyond a certain point. Such, then,\r\nis our answer to the assertions of Celsus, “that a revolt was\r\nthe original commencement of the ancient Jewish state, and\r\nsubsequently of Christianity.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter VIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-140"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4d7eee7449d366f4ab97f13da393df0ec7fa1e711a3d369e501e0ecb24553e4c","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-f267","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":"f267","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f267\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r267\">267</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">Συγγενεῖς εἰσιν αἱ προσηγορίαι.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f267","text_sha256":"bc267ee2a48e179503a6f75f4d471da6591f22faacfb17f6a3864cdad2d34f9e","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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