Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">[The narrative, then, may be understood as follows.] All\r\nthe people upon the earth are to be regarded as having used\r\none divine language, and so long as they lived harmoniously\r\ntogether were preserved in the use of this divine language,\r\nand they remained without moving from the east so long as\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_299\">299</span>they were imbued with the sentiments of the “light,” and of\r\nthe “reflection” of the eternal light.<a id=\"r947\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f947\"><sup>[947]</sup></a> But when they departed\r\nfrom the east, and began to entertain sentiments alien to those\r\nof the east,<a id=\"r948\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f948\"><sup>[948]</sup></a> they found a place in the land of Shinar (which,\r\nwhen interpreted, means “gnashing of teeth,” by way of indicating\r\nsymbolically that they had lost the means of their support),\r\nand in it they took up their abode. Then, desiring to\r\ngather together material things,<a id=\"r949\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f949\"><sup>[949]</sup></a> and to join to heaven what\r\nhad no natural affinity for it, that by means of material things\r\nthey might conspire against such as were immaterial, they said,\r\n“Come, let us make bricks, and burn them with fire.” Accordingly,\r\nwhen they had hardened and compacted these materials\r\nof clay and matter, and had shown their desire to make brick\r\ninto stone, and clay into bitumen, and by these means to build\r\na city and a tower, the head of which was, at least in their conception,\r\nto reach up to the heavens, after the manner of the\r\n“high things which exalt themselves against the knowledge of\r\nGod,” each one was handed over (in proportion to the greater\r\nor less departure from the east which had taken place among\r\nthem, and in proportion to the extent in which bricks had been\r\nconverted into stones, and clay into bitumen, and building\r\ncarried on out of these materials) to angels of character more\r\nor less severe, and of a nature more or less stern, until they\r\nhad paid the penalty of their daring deeds; and they were\r\nconducted by those angels, who imprinted on each his native\r\nlanguage, to the different parts of the earth according to their\r\ndeserts: some, for example, to a region of burning heat,\r\nothers to a country which chastises its inhabitants by its cold;\r\nothers, again, to a land exceedingly difficult of cultivation,\r\nothers to one less so in degree; while a fifth were brought into\r\na land filled with wild beasts, and a sixth to a country comparatively\r\nfree of these.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-357"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"18cdba08579b9d0a97954914438a50047cd47c6b3bf42f5932a03c359dcdefa6","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-f948","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":"f948","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f948\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r948\">948</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἀλλότρια ἀνατολῶν φρονοῦντες.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f948","text_sha256":"a1f1ca6a62b2686f6a104af4faa57880b6cbd18463c52e1d2e598d2185bf3ad2","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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