Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And as we teach, moreover, that “wisdom will not enter\r\ninto the soul of a base man, nor dwell in a body that is involved\r\nin sin,”<a id=\"r416\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f416\"><sup>[416]</sup></a> we say, Whoever has clean hands, and therefore lifts\r\nup holy hands to God, and by reason of being occupied with\r\nelevated and heavenly things, can say, “The lifting up of my\r\nhands is as the evening sacrifice,”<a id=\"r417\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f417\"><sup>[417]</sup></a> let him come to us; and\r\nwhoever has a wise tongue through meditating on the law of\r\nthe Lord day and night, and by “reason of habit has his senses\r\nexercised to discern between good and evil,” let him have no\r\nreluctance in coming to the strong and rational sustenance\r\nwhich is adapted to those who are athletes in piety and every\r\nvirtue. And since the grace of God is with all those who love\r\nwith a pure affection the teacher of the doctrines of immortality,\r\nwhoever is pure not only from all defilement, but from\r\nwhat are regarded as lesser transgressions, let him be boldly\r\ninitiated in the mysteries of Jesus, which properly are made\r\nknown only to the holy and the pure. The initiated of Celsus\r\naccordingly says, “Let him whose soul is conscious of no evil\r\ncome.” But he who acts as initiator, according to the precepts\r\nof Jesus, will say to those who have been purified in heart,\r\n“He whose soul has, for a long time, been conscious of no evil,\r\nand especially since he yielded himself to the healing of the\r\nword, let such an one hear the doctrines which were spoken in\r\nprivate by Jesus to His genuine disciples.” Therefore in the\r\ncomparison which he institutes between the procedure of the\r\ninitiators into the Grecian mysteries, and the teachers of the\r\ndoctrine of Jesus, he does not know the difference between\r\ninviting the wicked to be healed, and initiating those already\r\npurified into the sacred mysteries!</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-197"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"babe4649c41c034da9b4a649a480ee407489297eea47aaf2eba31e67829dda3a","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-f416","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":"f416","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f416\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r416\">416</a>.  </span><abbr title=\"Wisdom of Solomon\">Wisd. Solom.</abbr> <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f416","text_sha256":"877d638b88b3f7b799521305aea5830c4a34ba43b50a570e3d1e3fe534655506","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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