Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">We must therefore inquire what may be fittingly eaten or\r\nnot by the rational and gentle<a id=\"r975\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f975\"><sup>[975]</sup></a> animal, which acts always in\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_310\">310</span>conformity with reason; and not worship at random, sheep, or\r\ngoats, or kine; to abstain from which is an act of moderation,<a id=\"r976\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f976\"><sup>[976]</sup></a>\r\nfor much advantage is derived by men from these animals.\r\nWhereas, is it not the most foolish of all things to spare crocodiles,\r\nand to treat <i>them</i> as sacred to some fabulous divinity or\r\nother? For it is a mark of exceeding stupidity to spare those\r\nanimals which do not spare us, and to bestow care on those which\r\nmake a prey of human beings. But Celsus approves of those\r\nwho, in keeping with the laws of their country, worship and\r\ntend crocodiles, and not a word does he say against them, while\r\nthe Christians appear deserving of censure, who have been\r\ntaught to loath evil, and to turn away from wicked works, and\r\nto reverence and honour virtue as being generated by God,\r\nand as being His Son. For we must not, on account of their\r\nfeminine name and nature, regard wisdom and righteousness as\r\nfemales;<a id=\"r977\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f977\"><sup>[977]</sup></a> for these things are in our view the Son of God, as\r\nHis genuine disciple has shown, when he said of Him, “Who\r\nof God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,\r\nand redemption.”<a id=\"r978\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f978\"><sup>[978]</sup></a> And although we may call Him a\r\n“second” God, let men know that by the term “second God”\r\nwe mean nothing else than a virtue capable of including all\r\nother virtues, and a reason capable of containing all reason whatsoever\r\nwhich exists in all things, which have arisen naturally,\r\ndirectly, and for the general advantage, and which “reason,”\r\nwe say, dwelt in the soul of Jesus, and was united to Him in\r\na degree far above all other souls, seeing He alone was enabled\r\ncompletely to receive the highest share in the absolute reason,\r\nand the absolute wisdom, and the absolute righteousness.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-366"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4d08f101cef3db0cf1b41ad45cb61829f78c467bdd437c510aa811b6d53633a7","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-f976","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":"f976","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f976\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r976\">976</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">μέτριον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f976","text_sha256":"19408942e781b3b399ae02de8ad2996bf3bec443a04277da085621ae4850c30d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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