Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">There is next to be answered the following query: “And\r\nhow is it that he repents when men become ungrateful and\r\nwicked; and finds fault with his own handwork, and hates,\r\nand threatens, and destroys his own offspring?” Now Celsus\r\nhere calumniates and falsifies what is written in the book of\r\nGenesis to the following effect: “And the Lord God, seeing\r\nthat the wickedness of men upon the earth was increasing,\r\nand that every one in his heart carefully meditated to do evil\r\ncontinually, was grieved<a id=\"r1320\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1320\"><sup>[1320]</sup></a> He had made man upon the earth.\r\nAnd God meditated in His heart, and said, I will destroy man,\r\nwhom I have made, from the face of the earth, both man\r\nand beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the air, because I\r\nam grieved<a id=\"r1321\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1321\"><sup>[1321]</sup></a> that I made them;”<a id=\"r1322\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1322\"><sup>[1322]</sup></a> quoting words which are\r\nnot written in Scripture, as if they conveyed the meaning of\r\nwhat was actually written. For there is no mention in these\r\nwords of the repentance of God, nor of His blaming and hating\r\nHis own handwork. And if there is the appearance of God\r\nthreatening the catastrophe of the deluge, and thus destroying\r\nHis own children in it, we have to answer that, as the soul of\r\nman is immortal, the supposed threatening has for its object\r\nthe conversion of the hearers, while the destruction of men by\r\nthe flood is a purification of the earth, as certain among the\r\nGreek philosophers of no mean repute have indicated by the\r\nexpression: “When the gods purify the earth.”<a id=\"r1323\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1323\"><sup>[1323]</sup></a> And with\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_401\">401</span>respect to the transference to God of those anthropopathic\r\nphrases, some remarks have been already made by us in the\r\npreceding pages.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-453"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b6e73585031f96d47760158555d1eab4b5685de49f5c45d82324459f42eabddb","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-f1321","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":"f1321","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1321\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1321\">1321</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐνεθυμήθην.</span> <abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> remark in note 2.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1321","text_sha256":"4efd8a8383cc7a92195048f7bcc0832398fa5a321fbf192001a2348e3cbcd794","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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