Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The belief, then, in Antinous, or any other such person,\r\nwhether among the Egyptians or the Greeks, is, so to speak,\r\nunfortunate; while the belief in Jesus would seem to be either\r\na fortunate one, or the result of thorough investigation, having\r\nthe appearance of the former to the multitude, and of the\r\nlatter to exceedingly few.<a id=\"r366\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f366\"><sup>[366]</sup></a> And when I speak of a certain\r\nbelief being, as the multitude would call it, unfortunate, I in\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_120\">120</span>such a case refer the cause to God, who knows the reasons of\r\nthe various fates allotted to each one who enters human life.\r\nThe Greeks, moreover, will admit that even amongst those who\r\nare considered to be most largely endowed with wisdom, good\r\nfortune has had much to do, as in the choice of teachers of one\r\nkind rather than another, and in meeting with a better class\r\nof instructors (there being teachers who taught the most\r\nopposite doctrines), and in being brought up in better circumstances;\r\nfor the bringing up of many has been amid surroundings\r\nof such a kind, that they were prevented from ever\r\nreceiving any idea of better things, but constantly passed their\r\nlife, from their earliest youth, either as the favourites of licentious\r\nmen or of tyrants, or in some other wretched condition\r\nwhich forbade the soul to look upwards. And the causes of\r\nthese varied fortunes, according to all probability, are to be\r\nfound in the reasons of providence, though it is not easy for\r\nmen to ascertain these; but I have said what I have done by\r\nway of digression from the main body of my subject, on\r\naccount of the proverb, that “such is the power of faith,\r\nbecause it seizes that which first presents itself.”<a id=\"r367\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f367\"><sup>[367]</sup></a> For it was\r\nnecessary, owing to the different methods of education, to speak\r\nof the differences of belief among men, some of whom are more,\r\nothers less fortunate in their belief; and from this to proceed\r\nto show that what is termed good or bad fortune would appear\r\nto contribute, even in the case of the most talented, to their\r\nappearing to be more fully endowed with reason, and to give\r\ntheir assent on grounds of reason to the majority of human\r\nopinions. But enough on these points.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-171"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0f07b4b4ef421264cce16139a9f966e2a3b6ca4ab2c365f8f0f2d3878c896aea","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-f366","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":"f366","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f366\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r366\">366</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">περὶ δὲ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἤτοι δόξασα ἂν εἶναι εὐτυχὴς, ἢ καὶ βεβασανισμένως\r\nἐξητασμένη, δοκοῦσα μὲν εὐτυχὴς παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς, βεβασανισμένως δὲ ἐξητασμένη\r\nπαρὰ πάνυ ὀλιγωτάτοις.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f366","text_sha256":"583cd12fd9c7f2a23a3cefa57929d3cb860fa95025bd8c7848900eccbd18cc96","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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