Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And the following appear to me to be childish assertions, viz.\r\nthat “no good general and leader of great multitudes was ever\r\nbetrayed; nor even a wicked captain of robbers and commander\r\nof very wicked men, who seemed to be of any use to his associates;\r\nbut Jesus, having been betrayed by his subordinates,\r\nneither governed like a good general, nor, after deceiving his\r\ndisciples, produced in the minds of the victims of his deceit\r\nthat feeling of good-will which, so to speak, would be manifested\r\ntowards a brigand chief.” Now one might find many\r\naccounts of generals who were betrayed by their own soldiers,\r\nand of robber chiefs who were captured through the instrumentality\r\nof those who did not keep their bargains with them.\r\nBut grant that no general or robber chief was ever betrayed,\r\nwhat does that contribute to the establishment of the fact as a\r\ncharge against Jesus, that one of His disciples became His betrayer?\r\nAnd since Celsus makes an ostentatious exhibition of\r\nphilosophy, I would ask of him, If, then, it was a charge against\r\nPlato, that Aristotle, after being his pupil for twenty years,\r\nwent away and assailed his doctrine of the immortality of the\r\nsoul, and styled the ideas of Plato the merest trifling?<a id=\"r77\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f77\"><sup>[77]</sup></a> And\r\nif I were still in doubt, I would continue thus: Was Plato no\r\nlonger mighty in dialectics, nor able to defend his views, after\r\nAristotle had taken his departure; and, on that account, are the\r\nopinions of Plato false? Or may it not be, that while Plato\r\nis true, as the pupils of his philosophy would maintain, Aristotle\r\nwas guilty of wickedness and ingratitude towards his teacher?\r\nNay, Chrysippus also, in many places of his writings, appears\r\nto assail Cleanthes, introducing novel opinions opposed to his\r\nviews, although the latter had been his teacher when he was a\r\nyoung man, and began the study of philosophy. Aristotle,\r\nindeed, is said to have been Plato’s pupil for twenty years, and\r\nno inconsiderable period was spent by Chrysippus in the school\r\nof Cleanthes; while Judas did not remain so much as three\r\nyears with Jesus. But from the narratives of the lives of\r\nphilosophers we might take many instances similar to those on\r\nwhich Celsus founds a charge against Jesus on account of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_18\">18</span>Judas. Even the Pythagoreans erected cenotaphs<a id=\"r78\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f78\"><sup>[78]</sup></a> to those\r\nwho, after betaking themselves to philosophy, fell back again\r\ninto their ignorant mode of life; and yet neither was Pythagoras\r\nnor his followers, on that account, weak in argument and demonstration.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-52"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0d2c7aeb32b5036bde60396a144dde576392d2c0e14f217f89414a405a037456","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-f77","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":"f77","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f77\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r77\">77</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τερετίσματα.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f77","text_sha256":"ec1805755de5fa3a9b4c341db79e7379af0f62237fb6f8edf845c68cea012d04","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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