Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After these matters, Celsus brings the following charges\r\nagainst us from another quarter: “Certain most impious errors,”\r\nhe says, “are committed by them, due to their extreme ignorance,\r\nin which they have wandered away from the meaning of\r\nthe divine enigmas, creating an adversary to God, the devil,\r\nand naming him in the Hebrew tongue, Satan. Now, of a\r\ntruth, such statements are altogether of mortal invention,<a id=\"r1231\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1231\"><sup>[1231]</sup></a> and\r\nnot even proper to be repeated, viz. that the mighty God, in\r\nHis desire to confer good upon men, has yet one counterworking\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_381\">381</span>Him, and is helpless. The Son of God, it follows, is vanquished\r\nby the devil; and being punished by him, teaches us\r\nalso to despise the punishments which he inflicts, telling us\r\nbeforehand that Satan, after appearing to men as He Himself\r\nhad done, will exhibit great and marvellous works, claiming for\r\nhimself the glory of God, but that those who wish to keep him\r\nat a distance ought to pay no attention to these works of Satan,\r\nbut to place their faith in Him alone. Such statements are\r\nmanifestly the words of a deluder, planning and manœuvring\r\nagainst those who are opposed to his views, and who rank themselves\r\nagainst them.” In the next place, desiring to point out\r\nthe “enigmas,” our mistakes regarding which lead to the introduction\r\nof our views concerning Satan, he continues: “The\r\nancients allude obscurely to a certain war among the gods,\r\nHeraclitus speaking thus of it: ‘If one must say that there is\r\na general war and discord, and that all things are done and\r\nadministered in strife.’ Pherecydes, again, who is much\r\nolder than Heraclitus, relates a myth of one army drawn up in\r\nhostile array against another, and names Kronos as the leader\r\nof the one, and Ophioneus of the other, and recounts their\r\nchallenges and struggles, and mentions that agreements were\r\nentered into between them, to the end that whichever party\r\nshould fall into the Ocean<a id=\"r1232\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1232\"><sup>[1232]</sup></a> should be held as vanquished, while\r\nthose who had expelled and conquered them should have possession\r\nof heaven. The mysteries relating to the Titans and\r\nGiants also had some such [symbolical] meaning, as well as\r\nthe Egyptian mysteries of Typhon, and Horus, and Osiris.”\r\nAfter having made such statements, and not having got over\r\nthe difficulty<a id=\"r1233\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1233\"><sup>[1233]</sup></a> as to the way in which these accounts contain a\r\nhigher view of things, while our accounts are erroneous copies of\r\nthem, he continues his abuse of us, remarking that “these are\r\nnot like the stories which are related of a devil, or demon, or,\r\nas he remarks with more truth, of a man who is an impostor,\r\nwho wishes to establish an opposite doctrine.” And in the same\r\nway he understands Homer, as if he referred obscurely to\r\nmatters similar to those mentioned by Heraclitus, and Pherecydes,\r\nand the originators of the mysteries about the Titans\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_382\">382</span>and Giants, in those words which Hephæstus addresses to\r\nHera, as follows:</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XLII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-435"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1320442ffea8477dc59656f411e71db273c4576eb080fac0fe9d7f7511006771","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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