Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But since our views regarding the resurrection have, as far\r\nas time would permit, been stated in part on the present occasion\r\n(for we have systematically examined the subject in greater\r\ndetail in other parts of our writings); and as now we must\r\nby means of sound reasoning refute the fallacies of Celsus,\r\nwho neither understands the meaning of our Scripture, nor has\r\nthe capacity of judging that the meaning of our wise men is\r\nnot to be determined by those individuals who make no profession\r\nof anything more than of a [simple] faith in the Christian\r\nsystem, let us show that men, not to be lightly esteemed on\r\naccount of their reasoning powers and dialectic subtleties, have\r\ngiven expression to very absurd<a id=\"r921\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f921\"><sup>[921]</sup></a> opinions. And if we must\r\nsneer<a id=\"r922\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f922\"><sup>[922]</sup></a> at them as contemptible old wives’ fables, it is at them\r\nrather than at our narrative that we must sneer. The disciples\r\nof the Porch assert, that after a period of years there\r\nwill be a conflagration of the world, and after that an arrangement\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_289\">289</span>of things in which everything will be unchanged, as\r\ncompared with the former arrangement of the world. Those\r\nof them, however, who evinced their respect for this doctrine\r\nhave said that there will be a change, although exceedingly\r\nslight, at the end of the cycle, from what prevailed during the\r\npreceding. And these men maintain, that in the succeeding\r\ncycle the same things will occur, and Socrates will be again the\r\nson of Sophroniscus, and a native of Athens; and Phænarete,\r\nbeing married to Sophroniscus, will again become his mother.\r\nAnd although they do not mention the word “resurrection,”\r\nthey show in reality that Socrates, who derived his origin from\r\nseed, will spring from that of Sophroniscus, and will be\r\nfashioned in the womb of Phænarete; and being brought up\r\nat Athens, will practise the study of philosophy, as if his former\r\nphilosophy had arisen again, and were to be in no respect different\r\nfrom what it was before. Anytus and Melitus, too, will\r\narise again as accusers of Socrates, and the Council of Areopagus\r\nwill condemn him to death! But what is more ridiculous\r\nstill, is that Socrates will clothe himself with garments not at\r\nall different from those which he wore during the former cycle,\r\nand will live in the same unchanged state of poverty, and in\r\nthe same unchanged city of Athens! And Phalaris will again\r\nplay the tyrant, and his brazen bull will pour forth its bellowings\r\nfrom the voices of victims within, unchanged from those\r\nwho were condemned in the former cycle! And Alexander of\r\nPheræ, too, will again act the tyrant with a cruelty unaltered\r\nfrom the former time, and will condemn to death the same\r\n“unchanged” individuals as before. But what need is there to\r\ngo into detail upon the doctrine held by the Stoic philosophers\r\non such things, and which escapes the ridicule of Celsus, and\r\nis perhaps even venerated by him, since he regards Zeno as a\r\nwiser man than Jesus?</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-347"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"af7064a7fa0007dff44f3f8fa054636d5ad7d2a7081e5898ebb84a1ff63c1909","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-f922","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":"f922","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f922\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r922\">922</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">μυχθίζειν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f922","text_sha256":"a3c81e1f4513a28ba3a239202a4141c3d2a0b6a0bfacba32d58c8ae142630bd6","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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