Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The Jew continues his address to those of his countrymen\r\nwho are converts, as follows: “Come now, let us grant to you\r\nthat the prediction was actually uttered. Yet how many others\r\nare there who practise such juggling tricks, in order to deceive\r\ntheir simple hearers, and who make gain by their deception?—as\r\nwas the case, they say, with Zamolxis<a id=\"r151\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f151\"><sup>[151]</sup></a> in Scythia, the slave\r\nof Pythagoras; and with Pythagoras himself in Italy; and with\r\nRhampsinitus<a id=\"r152\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f152\"><sup>[152]</sup></a> in Egypt (the latter of whom, they say, played\r\nat dice with Demeter in Hades, and returned to the upper\r\nworld with a golden napkin which he had received from her as\r\na gift); and also with Orpheus<a id=\"r153\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f153\"><sup>[153]</sup></a> among the Odrysians, and\r\nProtesilaus in Thessaly, and Hercules<a id=\"r154\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f154\"><sup>[154]</sup></a> at Cape Tænarus, and\r\nTheseus. But the question is, whether any one who was really\r\ndead ever rose with a veritable body.<a id=\"r155\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f155\"><sup>[155]</sup></a> Or do you imagine the\r\nstatements of others not only to be myths, but to have the\r\nappearance of such, while you have discovered a becoming and\r\ncredible termination to your drama in the voice from the cross,\r\nwhen he breathed his last, and in the earthquake and the darkness?\r\nThat while alive he was of no assistance to himself,\r\nbut that when dead he rose again, and showed the marks of\r\nhis punishment, and how his hands were pierced with nails:\r\nwho beheld this? A half-frantic<a id=\"r156\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f156\"><sup>[156]</sup></a> woman, as you state, and\r\nsome other one, perhaps, of those who were engaged in the\r\nsame system of delusion, who had either dreamed so, owing to\r\na peculiar state of mind,<a id=\"r157\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f157\"><sup>[157]</sup></a> or under the influence of a wandering\r\nimagination had formed to himself an appearance according to\r\nhis own wishes,<a id=\"r158\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f158\"><sup>[158]</sup></a> which has been the case with numberless\r\nindividuals; or, which is most probable, one who desired to\r\nimpress others with this portent, and by such a falsehood to\r\nfurnish an occasion to impostors like himself.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-99"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"13c6af675272b86a27347d42ad253be147a6c972c1ab301171450981c258140b","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-f158","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":"f158","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f158\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r158\">158</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἢ κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ βούλησιν δοξῇ πεπλανημένῃ φαντασιωθείς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f158","text_sha256":"1c859d352eb85a8dae774bd2d01f12c056c7bb25036eb3b4cf115d3d024bb60b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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