Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And if the above be the state of the case, how do Jews and\r\nChristians search after “the shadow of an ass,” in seeking to\r\nascertain from those prophecies which they believe in common,\r\nwhether He who was foretold has come, or has not yet arrived,\r\nand is still an object of expectation? But even suppose<a id=\"r261\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f261\"><sup>[261]</sup></a> it be\r\ngranted to Celsus that it was not Jesus who was announced by\r\nthe prophets, then, even on such a hypothesis, the investigation\r\nof the sense of the prophetic writings is no search after “the\r\nshadow of an ass,” if he who was spoken of can be clearly\r\npointed out, and it can be shown both what sort of person he\r\nwas predicted to be, and what he was to do, and, if possible,\r\nwhen he was to arrive. But in the preceding pages we have\r\nalready spoken on the point of Jesus being the individual who\r\nwas foretold to be the Christ, quoting a few prophecies out of\r\na larger number. Neither Jews nor Christians, then, are\r\nwrong in assuming that the prophets spoke under divine influence;<a id=\"r262\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f262\"><sup>[262]</sup></a>\r\nbut they are in error who form erroneous opinions\r\nrespecting Him who was expected by the prophets to come, and\r\nwhose person and character were made known in their “true\r\ndiscourses.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter IV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-136"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6dead1108bef347dd692d4a351425d0e99a5f86fb6e32d7348ed91f41ee87415","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-f261","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":"f261","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f261\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r261\">261</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">καθ’ ὑπόθεσιν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f261","text_sha256":"fcb4d349a25631376a72eebf773046b44daca1a3cfc272f98ac81df4b1875b65","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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