Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">And if they are not to be blamed for so doing, let us see\r\nwhether Christians do not exhort multitudes to the practice of\r\nvirtue in a greater and better degree than they. For the\r\nphilosophers who converse in public do not pick and choose\r\ntheir hearers, but he who likes stands and listens. The Christians,\r\nhowever, having previously, so far as possible, tested the\r\nsouls of those who wish to become their hearers, and having\r\npreviously instructed<a id=\"r399\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f399\"><sup>[399]</sup></a> them in private, when they appear\r\n(before entering the community) to have sufficiently evinced\r\ntheir desire towards a virtuous life, introduce them then, and\r\nnot before, privately forming one class of those who are beginners,\r\nand are receiving admission, but who have not yet\r\nobtained the mark of complete purification; and another of\r\nthose who have manifested to the best of their ability their\r\nintention to desire no other things than are approved by Christians;\r\nand among these there are certain persons appointed\r\nto make inquiries regarding the lives and behaviour of those\r\nwho join them, in order that they may prevent those who\r\ncommit acts of infamy from coming into their public assembly,\r\nwhile those of a different character they receive with their\r\nwhole heart, in order that they may daily make them better.\r\nAnd this is their method of procedure, both with those who\r\nare sinners, and especially with those who lead dissolute lives,\r\nwhom they exclude from their community, although, according\r\nto Celsus, they resemble those who in the market-places perform\r\nthe most shameful tricks. Now the venerable school of\r\nthe Pythagoreans used to erect a cenotaph to those who had\r\napostatized from their system of philosophy, treating them as\r\ndead; but the Christians lament as dead those who have been\r\nvanquished by licentiousness or any other sin, because they are\r\nlost and dead to God, and as being risen from the dead (if\r\nthey manifest a becoming change) they receive them afterwards,\r\nat some future time, after a greater interval than in\r\nthe case of those who were admitted at first, but not placing\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_133\">133</span>in any office or post of rank in the church of God those who,\r\nafter professing the gospel, lapsed and fell.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-187"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"88643706513ce906444b02f8434af617b71429b5da548baece540ea98f0d7b3e","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-f399","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":"f399","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f399\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r399\">399</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">προεπάσαντες.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f399","text_sha256":"216e8e7868d0dd400f23abeebf0bb89cb935a17b2f67748c78ec63b3e88a10c7","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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