Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_59\">59</span>Now, since it is a Jew who makes these statements, we shall\r\nconduct the defence of our Jesus as if we were replying to a\r\nJew, still continuing the comparison derived from the accounts\r\nregarding Moses, and saying to him: “How many others are\r\nthere who practise similar juggling tricks to those of Moses, in\r\norder to deceive their silly hearers, and who make gain by their\r\ndeception?” Now this objection would be more appropriate in\r\nthe mouth of one who did not believe in Moses (as we might\r\nquote the instances of Zamolxis and Pythagoras, who were\r\nengaged in such juggling tricks) than in that of a Jew, who is\r\nnot very learned in the histories of the Greeks. An Egyptian,\r\nmoreover, who did not believe the miracles of Moses, might\r\ncredibly adduce the instance of Rhampsinitus, saying that it was\r\nfar more credible that he had descended to Hades, and had\r\nplayed at dice with Demeter, and that after stealing from her\r\na golden napkin he exhibited it as a sign of his having been in\r\nHades, and of his having returned thence, than that Moses\r\nshould have recorded that he entered into the darkness, where\r\nGod was, and that he alone, above all others, drew near to God.\r\nFor the following is his statement: “Moses alone shall come\r\nnear the Lord; but the rest shall not come nigh.”<a id=\"r159\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f159\"><sup>[159]</sup></a> We, then,\r\nwho are the disciples of Jesus, say to the Jew who urges these\r\nobjections: “While assailing our belief in Jesus, defend yourself,\r\nand answer the Egyptian and the Greek objectors: what\r\nwill you say to those charges which you brought against our\r\nJesus, but which also might be brought against Moses first?\r\nAnd if you should make a vigorous effort to defend Moses,\r\nas indeed his history does admit of a clear and powerful\r\ndefence, you will unconsciously, in your support of Moses, be\r\nan unwilling assistant in establishing the greater divinity of\r\nJesus.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-100"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7b080dda457dbf1f1ccddc3559152a323feb6e7f2a9f3e75f21b1ee0d5ca2ceb","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-f159","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":"f159","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f159\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r159\">159</a>.  </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Exodus\">Ex.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-four\">xxiv.</abbr> 2.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f159","text_sha256":"d53045cd450a3ce42352fb651874b61b500b006256a73e21efb3c2bdf1f2d3b1","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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