Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, as if it were the Christians whom he was\r\ncalumniating, he continues his accusations against those who\r\ntermed the God of Moses and of his law an “accursed” divinity;\r\nand imagining that it is the Christians who so speak, he expresses\r\nhimself thus: “What could be more foolish or insane\r\nthan such senseless<a id=\"r1182\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1182\"><sup>[1182]</sup></a> wisdom? For what blunder has the Jewish\r\nlawgiver committed? and why do you accept, by means, as\r\nyou say,<a id=\"r1183\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1183\"><sup>[1183]</sup></a> of a certain allegorical and typical method of interpretation,\r\nthe cosmogony which he gives, and the law of the\r\nJews, while it is with unwillingness, O most impious man, that\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_368\">368</span>you give praise to the Creator of the world, who promised to\r\ngive them all things; who promised to multiply their race to\r\nthe ends of the earth, and to raise them up from the dead\r\nwith the same flesh and blood, and who gave inspiration<a id=\"r1184\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1184\"><sup>[1184]</sup></a> to\r\ntheir prophets; and, again, you slander Him! When you feel\r\nthe force of such considerations, indeed, you acknowledge that\r\nyou worship the same God; but when your teacher Jesus and\r\nthe Jewish Moses give contradictory decisions,<a id=\"r1185\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1185\"><sup>[1185]</sup></a> you seek another\r\nGod, instead of Him, and the Father!” Now, by such statements,\r\nthis illustrious philosopher Celsus distinctly slanders the\r\nChristians, asserting that, when the Jews press them hard, they\r\nacknowledge the same God as they do; but that when Jesus\r\nlegislates differently from Moses, they seek another god instead\r\nof Him. Now, whether we are conversing with the Jews, or\r\nare alone with ourselves, we know of only one and the same\r\nGod, whom the Jews also worshipped of old time, and still profess\r\nto worship as God, and we are guilty of no impiety towards\r\nHim. We do <i>not</i> assert, however, that God will raise men\r\nfrom the dead with the same flesh and blood, as has been shown\r\nin the preceding pages; for we do not maintain that the natural<a id=\"r1186\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1186\"><sup>[1186]</sup></a>\r\nbody, which is sown in corruption, and in dishonour, and in\r\nweakness, will rise again such as it was sown. On such subjects,\r\nhowever, we have spoken at adequate length in the foregoing\r\npages.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-422"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b291c3977649200af0bcd834a4109edd2a1fb2ea460cfc1cdbac3d5b7641d3eb","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-f1185","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":"f1185","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1185\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1185\">1185</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ὅταν δὲ τὰ ἐναντία ὁ σὸς διδάσκαλος Ἰησοῦς, καὶ ὁ Ἰουδαίων Μωϋσῆς, νομοθετῆ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1185","text_sha256":"a8e69a741897a1f638d87091a6d4b67f17d03554061563fb809b7e6d5ff95f2d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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