Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, since he reproaches us with the existence\r\nof heresies in Christianity as being a ground of accusation\r\nagainst it, saying that “when Christians had greatly increased\r\nin numbers, they were divided and split up into factions, each\r\nindividual desiring to have his own party;” and further, that\r\n“being thus separated through their numbers, they confute\r\none another, still having, so to speak, one <i>name</i> in common, if\r\nindeed they still retain it. And this is the only thing which\r\nthey are yet ashamed to abandon, while other matters are\r\ndetermined in different ways by the various sects.” In reply\r\nto which, we say that heresies of different kinds have never\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_95\">95</span>originated from any matter in which the principle involved\r\nwas not important and beneficial to human life. For since the\r\nscience of medicine is useful and necessary to the human race,\r\nand many are the points of dispute in it respecting the manner\r\nof curing bodies, there are found, for this reason, numerous\r\nheresies confessedly prevailing in the science of medicine among\r\nthe Greeks, and also, I suppose, among those barbarous nations\r\nwho profess to employ medicine. And, again, since philosophy\r\nmakes a profession of the truth, and promises a knowledge of\r\nexisting things with a view to the regulation of life, and\r\nendeavours to teach what is advantageous to our race, and since\r\nthe investigation of these matters is attended with great differences\r\nof opinion,<a id=\"r282\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f282\"><sup>[282]</sup></a> innumerable heresies have consequently\r\nsprung up in philosophy, some of which are more celebrated\r\nthan others. Even Judaism itself afforded a pretext for the\r\norigination of heresies, in the different acceptation accorded to\r\nthe writings of Moses and those of the prophets. So, then,\r\nseeing Christianity appeared an object of veneration to men,\r\nnot to the more servile class alone, as Celsus supposes, but to\r\nmany among the Greeks who were devoted to literary pursuits,<a id=\"r283\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f283\"><sup>[283]</sup></a>\r\nthere necessarily originated heresies,—not at all, however, as the\r\nresult of faction and strife, but through the earnest desire of\r\nmany literary men to become acquainted with the doctrines of\r\nChristianity. The consequence of which was, that, taking in\r\ndifferent acceptations those discourses which were believed by\r\nall to be divine, there arose heresies, which received their names\r\nfrom those individuals who admired, indeed, the origin of\r\nChristianity, but who were led, in some way or other, by certain\r\nplausible reasons, to discordant views. And yet no one would\r\nact rationally in avoiding medicine because of its heresies; nor\r\nwould he who aimed at that which is seemly<a id=\"r284\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f284\"><sup>[284]</sup></a> entertain a hatred\r\nof philosophy, and adduce its many heresies as a pretext for his\r\nantipathy. And so neither are the sacred books of Moses and\r\nthe prophets to be condemned on account of the heresies in\r\nJudaism.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-144"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8c3b33692e0f2ceda7a228609e1530850f1a3f7f3d90c7d6e33ef6d6563cf7bb","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-f283","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":"f283","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f283\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r283\">283</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">φιλολόγων.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f283","text_sha256":"1b198a0524c5036b3d29e6308d630b9f0e2b2916f18627d72dc848d88196ce1d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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