Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">For it would, indeed, be absurd that certain stones and\r\nbuildings should be regarded as more sacred or more profane\r\nthan others, according as they were constructed for the honour\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_226\">226</span>of God, or for the reception of dishonourable and accursed\r\npersons;<a id=\"r725\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f725\"><sup>[725]</sup></a> while bodies should not differ from bodies, according\r\nas they are inhabited by rational or irrational beings, and\r\naccording as these rational beings are the most virtuous or\r\nmost worthless of mankind. Such a principle of distinction,\r\nindeed, has led some to deify the bodies of distinguished men,<a id=\"r726\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f726\"><sup>[726]</sup></a>\r\nas having received a virtuous soul, and to reject and treat with\r\ndishonour those of very wicked individuals. I do not maintain\r\nthat such a principle has been always soundly exercised, but\r\nthat it had its origin in a correct idea. Would a wise man,\r\nindeed, after the death of Anytus and Socrates, think of burying\r\nthe bodies of both with like honours? And would he\r\nraise the same mound or tomb to the memory of both? These\r\ninstances we have adduced because of the language of Celsus,\r\nthat “none of these is the work of God” (where the words\r\n“of these” refer to the body of a man, or to the snakes which\r\ncome out of the body; and to that of an ox, or of the bees\r\nwhich come from the body of an ox; and to that of a horse,\r\nor of an ass, and to the wasps which come from a horse, and\r\nthe beetles which proceed from an ass); for which reason we\r\nhave been obliged to return to the consideration of his statement,\r\nthat “the soul is the work of God, but that the nature\r\nof body is different.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-280"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"24cad50fe9099fd1c6a74643a95edc7c7ceeb4e6c282ef2a425600a5248ffc7d","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-f726","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":"f726","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f726\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r726\">726</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τῶν διαφερόντων.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f726","text_sha256":"9aad38bbec0b6c4c367c8e82aaac9b41cef638cbd811bcfb6c8fdf375fcbd3da","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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