Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After finishing the foregoing, and those analogous matters\r\nwhich we ourselves have added, Celsus continues as follows:\r\n“They continue to heap together one thing after another,—discourses\r\nof prophets, and circles upon circles, and effluents<a id=\"r1206\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1206\"><sup>[1206]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_373\">373</span>from an earthly church, and from circumcision; and a power\r\nflowing from one Prunicos, a virgin and a living soul; and a\r\nheaven slain in order to live, and an earth slaughtered by the\r\nsword, and many put to death that they may live, and death\r\nceasing in the world, when the sin of the world is dead; and,\r\nagain, a narrow way, and gates that open spontaneously. And\r\nin all their writings [is mention made] of the tree of life, and\r\na resurrection of the flesh by means<a id=\"r1207\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1207\"><sup>[1207]</sup></a> of the ‘tree,’ because, I\r\nimagine, their teacher was nailed to a cross, and was a carpenter\r\nby trade; so that if he had chanced to have been cast from a\r\nprecipice, or thrust into a pit, or suffocated by hanging, or had\r\nbeen a leather-cutter, or stone-cutter, or worker in iron, there\r\nwould have been [invented] a precipice of life beyond the\r\nheavens, or a pit of resurrection, or a cord of immortality, or a\r\nblessed stone, or an iron of love, or a sacred leather! Now\r\nwhat old woman would not be ashamed to utter such things in\r\na whisper, even when making stories to lull an infant to sleep?”\r\nIn using such language as this, Celsus appears to me to confuse\r\ntogether matters which he has imperfectly heard. For it\r\nseems likely that, even supposing that he had heard a few words\r\ntraceable to some existing heresy, he did not clearly understand\r\nthe meaning intended to be conveyed; but heaping the words\r\ntogether, he wished to show before those who knew nothing\r\neither of our opinions or of those of the heretics, that he was\r\nacquainted with all the doctrines of the Christians. And this\r\nis evident also from the foregoing words.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-427"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9bf331c8cf699e80844215e684b577bb94abbe6c2650047e547434231c18cbf6","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-f1207","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":"f1207","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1207\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1207\">1207</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἀπὸ ξύλου.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1207","text_sha256":"4f5bcabe66a328bee2dfb9a1b326a39ea3e7f9a06c8c72db4c885dcc46b3eb0f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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