Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The Egyptians, then, having been taught to worship Antinous,\r\nwill, if you compare him with Apollo or Zeus, endure\r\nsuch a comparison, Antinous being magnified in their estimation\r\nthrough being classed with these deities; for Celsus is\r\nclearly convicted of falsehood when he says, “that they will\r\nnot endure his being compared with Apollo or Zeus.” Whereas\r\nChristians (who have learned that their eternal life consists in\r\nknowing the only true God, who is over all, and Jesus Christ,\r\nwhom He has sent; and who have learned also that all the gods\r\nof the heathen are greedy demons, which flit around sacrifices\r\nand blood, and other sacrificial accompaniments,<a id=\"r362\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f362\"><sup>[362]</sup></a> in order to\r\ndeceive those who have not taken refuge with the God who is\r\nover all, but that the divine and holy angels of God are of a\r\ndifferent nature and will<a id=\"r363\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f363\"><sup>[363]</sup></a> from all the demons on earth, and\r\nthat they are known to those exceedingly few persons who have\r\ncarefully and intelligently investigated these matters) will not\r\nendure a comparison to be made between them and Apollo\r\nor Zeus, or any being worshipped with odours and blood and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_119\">119</span>sacrifices; some of them, so acting from their extreme simplicity,\r\nnot being able to give a reason for their conduct, but\r\nsincerely observing the precepts which they have received;\r\nothers, again, for reasons not to be lightly regarded, nay, even\r\nof a profound description, and (as a Greek would say) drawn\r\nfrom the inner nature of things;<a id=\"r364\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f364\"><sup>[364]</sup></a> and amongst the latter of\r\nthese God is a frequent subject of conversation, and those who\r\nare honoured by God, through His only-begotten Word, with\r\nparticipation in His divinity, and therefore also in His name.\r\nThey speak much, too, both regarding the angels of God and\r\nthose who are opposed to the truth, but have been deceived;\r\nand who, in consequence of being deceived, call them gods or\r\nangels of God, or good demons, or heroes who have become such\r\nby the transference into them of a good human soul.<a id=\"r365\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f365\"><sup>[365]</sup></a> And\r\nsuch Christians will also show, that as in philosophy there are\r\nmany who appear to be in possession of the truth, who have yet\r\neither deceived themselves by plausible arguments, or by rashly\r\nassenting to what was brought forward and discovered by\r\nothers; so also, among those souls which exist apart from\r\nbodies, both angels and demons, there are some which have been\r\ninduced by plausible reasons to declare themselves gods. And\r\nbecause it was impossible that the reasons of such things could\r\nbe discovered by men with perfect exactness, it was deemed\r\nsafe that no mortal should entrust himself to any being as to\r\nGod, with the exception of Jesus Christ, who is, as it were, the\r\nRuler over all things, and who both beheld these weighty\r\nsecrets, and made them known to a few.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-170"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"caeb1cad0f9c1209f17b5b5d2bcb1ee2225fe320128d1caf1b92ea05627c2281","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-f365","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":"f365","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f365\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r365\">365</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἢ ἥρωας ἐκ μεταβολῆς συστάντας ἀγαθῆς ἀνθρωπίνης ψυχῆς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f365","text_sha256":"efb7d9da00cba8bb8ff231a71adae21f2aba2636a211a3112a8939b74407b42a","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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