Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After having brought against us charges of so serious a kind,\r\nhe wishes to make it appear that, although he has others to\r\nadduce, he passes them by in silence. His words are as follow:\r\n“These charges I have to bring against them, and others of a\r\nsimilar nature, not to enumerate them one by one, and I affirm\r\nthat they are in error, and that they act insolently towards God,\r\nin order to lead on wicked men by empty hopes, and to persuade\r\nthem to despise better things, saying that if they refrain from\r\nthem it will be better for them.” In answer to which, it might\r\nbe said that from the power which shows itself in those who\r\nare converted to Christianity, it is not at all the “wicked” who\r\nare won over to the gospel, as the more simple class of persons,\r\nand, as many would term them, the “unpolished.”<a id=\"r469\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f469\"><sup>[469]</sup></a> For such\r\nindividuals, through fear of the punishments that are threatened,\r\nwhich arouses and exhorts them to refrain from those\r\nactions which are followed by punishments, strive to yield themselves\r\nup to the Christian religion, being influenced by the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_157\">157</span>power of the word to such a degree, that through fear of what\r\nare called in the word “everlasting punishments,” they despise\r\nall the tortures which are devised against them among men,—even\r\ndeath itself, with countless other evils,—which no wise\r\nman would say is the act of persons of wicked mind. How can\r\ntemperance and sober-mindedness, or benevolence and liberality,\r\nbe practised by a man of wicked mind? Nay, even the fear\r\nof God cannot be felt by such an one, with respect to which,\r\nbecause it is useful to the many, the gospel encourages those\r\nwho are not yet able to choose that which ought to be chosen\r\nfor its own sake, to select it as the greatest blessing, and one\r\nabove all promise; for this principle cannot be implanted in\r\nhim who prefers to live in wickedness.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-216"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"55438a6baf4b3b54546e9873c94c2bb83dac1e06ecae6e5e5cdb8cb1ac52ac05","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-f469","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":"f469","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f469\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r469\">469</a>.  </span>The reading in the text is <span lang=\"grc\">κομψοί</span>, which is so opposed to the sense of\r\nthe passage, that the conjecture of Guietus, <span lang=\"grc\">ἄκομψοι</span>, has been adopted in\r\nthe translation.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f469","text_sha256":"babd1b1200d1829a55562ec178405e924384bbe0ccf98d020f7c2338f9aff2af","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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