Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In designating others by the epithets of “uninstructed, and\r\nservile, and ignorant,” Celsus, I suppose, means those who are\r\nnot acquainted with his laws, nor trained in the branches of\r\nGreek learning; while we, on the other hand, deem those to be\r\n“uninstructed” who are not ashamed to address [supplications]\r\nto inanimate objects, and to call upon those for health that\r\nhave no strength, and to ask the dead for life, and to entreat\r\nthe helpless for assistance.<a id=\"r1103\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1103\"><sup>[1103]</sup></a> And although some may say that\r\nthese objects are not gods, but only imitations and symbols of\r\nreal divinities, nevertheless these very individuals, in imagining\r\nthat the hands of low mechanics<a id=\"r1104\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1104\"><sup>[1104]</sup></a> can frame imitations of\r\ndivinity, are “uninstructed, and servile, and ignorant;” for we\r\nassert that the lowest<a id=\"r1105\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1105\"><sup>[1105]</sup></a> among us have been set free from this\r\nignorance and want of knowledge, while the most intelligent\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_352\">352</span>can understand and grasp the divine hope. We do <i>not</i> maintain,\r\nhowever, that it is impossible for one who has not been\r\ntrained in earthly wisdom to receive the “divine,” but we <i>do</i>\r\nacknowledge that all human wisdom is “folly” in comparison\r\nwith the “divine.” In the next place, instead of endeavouring\r\nto adduce reasons, as he ought, for his assertions, he terms us\r\n“sorcerers,”<a id=\"r1106\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1106\"><sup>[1106]</sup></a> and asserts that “we flee away with headlong\r\nspeed<a id=\"r1107\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1107\"><sup>[1107]</sup></a> from the more polished<a id=\"r1108\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1108\"><sup>[1108]</sup></a> class of persons, because they\r\nare not suitable subjects for our impositions, while we seek to\r\ndecoy<a id=\"r1109\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1109\"><sup>[1109]</sup></a> those who are more rustic.” Now he did not observe\r\nthat from the very beginning our wise men were trained in the\r\nexternal branches of learning: Moses, <i>e.g.</i>, in all the wisdom\r\nof the Egyptians; Daniel, and Ananias, and Azariah, and\r\nMishael, in all Assyrian learning, so that they were found to\r\nsurpass in tenfold degree all the wise men of that country. At\r\nthe present time, moreover, the churches have, in proportion to\r\nthe multitudes [of ordinary believers], a few “wise” men, who\r\nhave come over to them from that wisdom which is said by us\r\nto be “according to the flesh;”<a id=\"r1110\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1110\"><sup>[1110]</sup></a> and they have also some who\r\nhave advanced from it to that wisdom which is “divine.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-407"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a1461b0803deb80aae09e0c4455f3514e81bf8072afd000bf611d42916abf34a","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-f1108","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":"f1108","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1108\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1108\">1108</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τοὺς χαριεστέρους.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1108","text_sha256":"7cc605a6ee12ca7e6ae09b1305f3ece4978ed912f756d4cbccfa04ecf3250050","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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