Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Any one who examines the subject will see that Jesus\r\nattempted and successfully accomplished works beyond the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_426\">426</span>reach of human power. For although, from the very beginning,\r\nall things opposed the spread of His doctrine in the\r\nworld,—both the princes of the times, and their chief captains\r\nand generals, and all, to speak generally, who were\r\npossessed of the smallest influence, and in addition to these, the\r\nrulers of the different cities, and the soldiers, and the people,—yet\r\nit proved victorious, as being the Word of God, the\r\nnature of which is such that it cannot be hindered; and\r\nbecoming more powerful than all such adversaries, it made\r\nitself master of the whole of Greece, and a considerable\r\nportion of barbarian lands, and converted countless numbers\r\nof souls to His religion. And although, among the multitude\r\nof converts to Christianity, the simple and ignorant necessarily\r\noutnumbered the more intelligent, as the former class\r\nalways does the latter, yet Celsus, unwilling to take note of\r\nthis, thinks that this philanthropic doctrine, which reaches to\r\nevery soul under the sun, is vulgar,<a id=\"r1169\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1169\"><sup>[1169]</sup></a> and on account of its\r\nvulgarity and its want of reasoning power, obtained a hold\r\nonly over the ignorant. And yet he himself admits that it\r\nwas not the simple alone who were led by the doctrine of\r\nJesus to adopt His religion; for he acknowledges that there\r\nwere amongst them some persons of moderate intelligence,\r\nand gentle disposition, and possessed of understanding, and\r\ncapable of comprehending allegories.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter XXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-425"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e34b82697c6402156627dff30e8ea243bf2dce2f837d2959d932c33431e73f47","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1169","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1169","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1169\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1169\">1169</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἰδιωτικήν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1169","text_sha256":"1a3609deb3c57fdb6b2ecd7e15f523fb3e20f9bb605226c8b9be6891e6ee9565","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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