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And who is there who\r\nwould not be astonished at this prediction: “Ye shall be\r\nbrought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony\r\nagainst them and the Gentiles;”<a id=\"r80\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f80\"><sup>[80]</sup></a> and at any others which\r\nHe may have delivered respecting the future persecution of His\r\ndisciples? For what system of opinions ever existed among\r\nmen on account of which others are punished, so that any\r\none of the accusers of Jesus could say that, foreseeing the\r\nimpiety or falsity of his opinions to be the ground of an accusation\r\nagainst them, he thought that this would redound to his\r\ncredit, that he had so predicted regarding it long before? Now\r\nif any deserve to be brought, on account of their opinions,\r\nbefore governors and kings, what others are they, save the\r\nEpicureans, who altogether deny the existence of providence?\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_19\">19</span>And also the Peripatetics, who say that prayers are of no\r\navail, and sacrifices offered as to the Divinity? But some one\r\nwill say that the Samaritans suffer persecution because of their\r\nreligion. In answer to whom we shall state that the Sicarians,<a id=\"r81\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f81\"><sup>[81]</sup></a>\r\non account of the practice of circumcision, as mutilating themselves\r\ncontrary to the established laws and the customs permitted\r\nto the Jews alone, are put to death. And you never\r\nhear a judge inquiring whether a Sicarian who strives to live\r\naccording to this established religion of his will be released\r\nfrom punishment if he apostatizes, but will be led away to\r\ndeath if he continues firm; for the evidence of the circumcision\r\nis sufficient to ensure the death of him who has undergone\r\nit. But Christians alone, according to the prediction of\r\ntheir Saviour, “Ye shall be brought before governors and kings\r\nfor my sake,” are urged up to their last breath by their judges\r\nto deny Christianity, and to sacrifice according to the public\r\ncustoms; and after the oath of abjuration, to return to their\r\nhomes, and to live in safety. And observe whether it is not\r\nwith great authority that this declaration is uttered: “Whosoever\r\ntherefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess\r\nalso before my Father who is in heaven. And whosoever shall\r\ndeny me before men,”<a id=\"r82\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f82\"><sup>[82]</sup></a> etc. And go back with me in thought\r\nto Jesus when He uttered these words, and see His predictions\r\nnot yet accomplished. Perhaps you will say, in a spirit of\r\nincredulity, that he is talking folly, and speaking to no purpose,\r\nfor his words will have no fulfilment; or, being in doubt about\r\nassenting to his words, you will say, that if these predictions\r\nbe fulfilled, and the doctrine of Jesus be established, so that\r\ngovernors and kings think of destroying those who acknowledge\r\nJesus, then we shall believe that he utters these prophecies as\r\none who has received great power from God to implant this doctrine\r\namong the human race, and as believing that it will prevail.\r\nAnd who will not be filled with wonder, when he goes back in\r\nthought to Him who then taught and said, “This gospel shall\r\nbe preached throughout the whole world, for a testimony against\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_20\">20</span>them and the Gentiles,” and beholds, agreeably to His words,\r\nthe gospel of Jesus Christ preached in the whole world under\r\nheaven to Greeks and barbarians, wise and foolish alike? For\r\nthe word, spoken with power, has gained the mastery over men\r\nof all sorts of nature, and it is impossible to see any race of\r\nmen which has escaped accepting the teaching of Jesus. But\r\nlet this Jew of Celsus, who does not believe that He foreknew\r\nall that happened to Him, consider how, while Jerusalem was\r\nstill standing, and the whole Jewish worship celebrated in it,\r\nJesus foretold what would befall it from the hand of the\r\nRomans. For they will not maintain that the acquaintances\r\nand pupils of Jesus Himself handed down His teaching contained\r\nin the Gospels without committing it to writing, and\r\nleft His disciples without the memoirs of Jesus contained in\r\ntheir works. Now in these it is recorded, that “when ye shall\r\nsee Jerusalem compassed about with armies, then shall ye know\r\nthat the desolation thereof is nigh.”<a id=\"r83\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f83\"><sup>[83]</sup></a> But at that time there\r\nwere no armies around Jerusalem, encompassing and enclosing\r\nand besieging it; for the siege began in the reign of Nero,\r\nand lasted till the government of Vespasian, whose son Titus\r\ndestroyed Jerusalem, on account, as Josephus says, of James\r\nthe Just, the brother of Jesus who was called Christ, but in\r\nreality, as the truth makes clear, on account of Jesus Christ\r\nthe Son of God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-53"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0901de3be87757744c084ea1c27fa55946c5c01488561ed68e12a3ff65df2f64","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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