Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. Since many, however, of those who profess to believe in\r\nChrist differ from each other, not only in small and trifling\r\nmatters, but also on subjects of the highest importance, as\r\n<i>e.g.</i> regarding God, or the Lord Jesus Christ, or the Holy\r\nSpirit; and not only regarding these, but also regarding\r\nothers which are created existences, viz. the powers<a id=\"r6\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f6\"><sup>[6]</sup></a> and the\r\nholy virtues;<a id=\"r7\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f7\"><sup>[7]</sup></a> it seems on that account necessary first of all\r\nto fix a definite limit and to lay down an unmistakeable rule\r\nregarding each one of these, and then to pass to the investigation\r\nof other points. For as we ceased to seek for truth\r\n(notwithstanding the professions of many among Greeks and\r\nBarbarians to make it known) among all who claimed it for\r\nerroneous opinions, after we had come to believe that Christ\r\nwas the Son of God, and were persuaded that we must learn\r\nit from Himself; so, seeing there are many who think they\r\nhold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently\r\nfrom their predecessors, yet as the teaching of the\r\nchurch, transmitted in orderly succession from the apostles,\r\nand remaining in the churches to the present day, is still preserved,\r\nthat alone is to be accepted as truth which differs in\r\nno respect from ecclesiastical and apostolical tradition.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","PREFACE."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-52"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4033f79aabb7827ae3b63680feae2d6b40295925a166ae3cd6d2bc42fedc1dce","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f7","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f7","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f7\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r7\">7</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Virtutes</span>.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f7","text_sha256":"2158227ee674be47b98e0fc26bfbacc2b91d82ea6e5a42b8ad40199877fffb4b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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