Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">After this, it seemed proper to Celsus to term the Chaldeans\r\na most divinely-inspired nation from the very earliest times,<a id=\"r1419\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1419\"><sup>[1419]</sup></a>\r\nfrom whom the delusive system of astrology<a id=\"r1420\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1420\"><sup>[1420]</sup></a> has spread abroad\r\namong men. Nay, he ranks the Magi also in the same category,\r\nfrom whom the art of magic derived its name and has\r\nbeen transmitted to other nations, to the corruption and destruction\r\nof those who employ it. In the preceding part of\r\nthis work, [we mentioned] that, in the opinion even of Celsus,\r\nthe Egyptians also were guilty of error, because they had indeed\r\nsolemn enclosures around what they considered their temples,\r\nwhile within them there was nothing save apes, or crocodiles,\r\nor goats, or asps, or some other animal; but on the present\r\noccasion it pleases him to speak of the Egyptian people too as\r\nmost divinely inspired, and that, too, from the earliest times,—perhaps\r\nbecause they made war upon the Jews from an early\r\ndate. The Persians, moreover, who marry their own mothers,\r\nand have intercourse with their own daughters, are, in the\r\nopinion of Celsus, an inspired race; nay, even the Indians are\r\nso, some of whom, in the preceding, he mentioned as eaters of\r\nhuman flesh. To the Jews, however, especially those of ancient\r\ntimes, who employ none of these practices, he did not merely\r\nrefuse the name of inspired, but declared that they would immediately\r\nperish. And this prediction he uttered respecting them,\r\nas being doubtless endued with prophetic power, not observing\r\nthat the whole history of the Jews, and their ancient and venerable\r\npolity, were administered by God; and that it is by their\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_424\">424</span>fall that salvation has come to the Gentiles, and that “their\r\nfall is the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the\r\nriches of the Gentiles,”<a id=\"r1421\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1421\"><sup>[1421]</sup></a> until the fulness of the Gentiles come,\r\nthat after that the whole of Israel, whom Celsus does not know,\r\nmay be saved.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXXX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-475"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a5541ab2fe00a4807c06ee547d47315eaf2a93b9d5a6afcbc6317ef848ee69f9","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-f1419","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":"f1419","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1419\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1419\">1419</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐξ ἀρχῆς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1419","text_sha256":"73721ba0b9d91bc075f27e19130270f8b8442c1d541bea37174af61165e91a0a","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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