Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">3. What, then, are we to say of this, which the prophets\r\nhad beforehand foretold of Him, that princes would not\r\ncease from Judah, nor leaders from between his thighs,\r\nuntil He should come for whom it has been reserved (viz.\r\nthe kingdom), and until the expectation of the Gentiles\r\nshould come? For it is most distinctly evident from the\r\nhistory itself, from what is clearly seen at the present day,\r\nthat from the times of Christ onwards there were no kings\r\namongst the Jews. Nay, even all those objects of Jewish\r\npride,<a id=\"r786\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f786\"><sup>[786]</sup></a> of which they vaunted so much, and in which they\r\nexulted, whether regarding the beauty of the temple or the\r\nornaments of the altar, and all those sacerdotal fillets and\r\nrobes of the high priests, were all destroyed together. For\r\nthe prophecy was fulfilled which had declared, “For the\r\nchildren of Israel shall abide many days without king and\r\nprince: there shall be no victim, nor altar, nor priesthood,\r\nnor answers.”<a id=\"r787\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f787\"><sup>[787]</sup></a> These testimonies, accordingly, we employ\r\nagainst those who seem to assert that what is spoken in\r\nGenesis by Jacob refers to Judah; and who say that there\r\nstill remains a prince of the race of Judah—he, viz., who is\r\nthe prince of their nation, whom they style Patriarch<a id=\"r788\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f788\"><sup>[788]</sup></a>—and\r\nthat there cannot fail [a ruler] of his seed, who will remain\r\nuntil the advent of that Christ whom they picture to themselves.\r\nBut if the prophet’s words be true, when he says,\r\n“The children of Israel shall abide many days without king,\r\nwithout prince; and there shall be no victim, nor altar, nor\r\npriesthood;”<a id=\"r789\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f789\"><sup>[789]</sup></a> and if, certainly, since the overthrow of the\r\ntemple, victims are neither offered, nor any altar found, nor\r\nany priesthood exists, it is most certain that, as it is written,\r\nprinces have departed from Judah, and a leader from between\r\nhis thighs, until the coming of him for whom it has been\r\nreserved. It is established, then, that he is come for whom\r\nit has been reserved, and in whom is the expectation of the\r\nGentiles. And this manifestly seems to be fulfilled in the\r\nmultitude of those who have believed on God through Christ\r\nout of the different nations.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","FROM THE LATIN."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-291"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"336c76b7c739ace11859653f7b4c60a117b318ae1f65ea21f5f46697825fd7e3","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f786","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":"f786","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f786\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r786\">786</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Illæ omnes ambitiones Judaicæ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f786","text_sha256":"20fb7dcb7e1b545f3d6cc752933e9181599edda55aeb7d943d7832d11da4a4d1","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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