Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And still continuing a little confused, and not taking care to\r\nsee what was relevant to the matter, he expressed his opinion\r\nthat the Jews were induced by the incantations employed in\r\njugglery and sorcery (in consequence of which certain phantoms\r\nappear, in obedience to the spells employed by the magicians)\r\nto bow down to the angels in heaven, not observing that\r\nthis was contrary to their law, which said to them who practised\r\nsuch observances: “Regard not them which have familiar\r\nspirits,<a id=\"r860\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f860\"><sup>[860]</sup></a> neither seek after wizards,<a id=\"r861\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f861\"><sup>[861]</sup></a> to be defiled by them: I am\r\nthe Lord your God.”<a id=\"r862\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f862\"><sup>[862]</sup></a> He ought, therefore, either not to\r\nhave at all attributed this practice to the Jews, seeing he has\r\nobserved that they keep their law, and has called them “those\r\nwho live according to their law;” or if he did attribute it, he\r\nought to have shown that the Jews did this in violation of\r\ntheir code. But again, as they transgress their law who offer\r\nworship to those who are said to appear to them who are involved\r\nin darkness and blinded by sorcery, and who dream\r\ndreams, owing to obscure phantoms presenting themselves; so\r\nalso do they transgress the law who offer sacrifice to sun, moon,\r\nand stars.<a id=\"r863\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f863\"><sup>[863]</sup></a> And there is thus great inconsistency in the same\r\nindividual saying that the Jews are careful to keep their law\r\nby not bowing down to sun, and moon, and stars, while they\r\nare not so careful to keep it in the matter of heaven and the\r\nangels.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter IX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-336"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6b3306eb926dc3de8c6ad822f5bf8b8e71affd3dcbe130eef1d6bca99525929d","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-f860","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":"f860","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f860\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r860\">860</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐγγαστριμύθοις.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f860","text_sha256":"78b06aa1eca1a13d19125c0938d5fdb235dec28f4eb7d62cf4f13380447ef9e6","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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