Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">If one wished to obtain means for a profounder contemplation\r\nof the entrance of souls into divine things, not from\r\nthe statements of that very insignificant sect from which he\r\nquoted, but from books—partly those of the Jews, which are\r\nread in their synagogues, and adopted by Christians, and\r\npartly from those of Christians alone—let him peruse, at the\r\nend of Ezekiel’s prophecies, the visions beheld by the prophet,\r\nin which gates of different kinds are enumerated,<a id=\"r1156\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1156\"><sup>[1156]</sup></a> which\r\nobscurely refer to the different modes in which divine souls\r\nenter into a better world;<a id=\"r1157\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1157\"><sup>[1157]</sup></a> and let him peruse also, from\r\nthe Apocalypse of John, what is related of the city of\r\nGod, the heavenly Jerusalem, and of its foundations and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_362\">362</span>gates.<a id=\"r1158\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1158\"><sup>[1158]</sup></a> And if he is capable of finding out also the road,\r\nwhich is indicated by symbols, of those who will march on to\r\ndivine things, let him read the book of Moses entitled Numbers,\r\nand let him seek the help of one who is capable of initiating him\r\ninto the meaning of the narratives concerning the encampments\r\nof the children of Israel; viz. of what sort those were which\r\nwere arranged towards the east, as was the case with the first;\r\nand what those towards the south-west and south; and what\r\ntowards the sea; and what the last were, which were stationed\r\ntowards the north. For he will see that there is in the respective\r\nplaces a meaning<a id=\"r1159\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1159\"><sup>[1159]</sup></a> not to be lightly treated, nor, as Celsus\r\nimagines, such as calls only for silly and servile listeners: but\r\nhe will distinguish in the encampments certain things relating\r\nto the numbers that are enumerated, and which are specially\r\nadapted to each tribe, of which the present does not appear to us\r\nto be the proper time to speak. Let Celsus know, moreover, as\r\nwell as those who read his book, that in no part of the genuine\r\nand divinely accredited Scriptures are “seven” heavens mentioned;\r\nneither do our prophets, nor the apostles of Jesus, nor\r\nthe Son of God Himself, repeat anything which they borrowed\r\nfrom the Persians or the Cabiri.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-416"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cbfcc39b5e23e5574bdb7eb21dc1b66b0b4ee7a499bcf4f6a361f582fe8941c1","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-f1158","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":"f1158","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1158\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1158\">1158</a>.  </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Apocalypse\">Apoc.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-one\">xxi.</abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1158","text_sha256":"22436ad5ddf3c3ce656ba0158b2f37775f39626e71df09b9e367ef1975325d4b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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