Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, as if this were possible, viz. that the image\r\nof a man who was dead could appear to another as if he were\r\nstill living, he adopts this opinion as an Epicurean, and says,\r\n“That some one having so dreamed owing to a peculiar state\r\nof mind, or having, under the influence of a perverted imagination,\r\nformed such an appearance as he himself desired, reported\r\nthat such had been seen; and this,” he continues, “has\r\nbeen the case with numberless individuals.” But even if this\r\nstatement of his seems to have a considerable degree of force,\r\nit is nevertheless only fitted to confirm a necessary doctrine,\r\nthat the soul of the dead exists in a separate state [from the\r\nbody]; and he who adopts such an opinion does not believe\r\nwithout good reason in the immortality, or at least continued\r\nexistence, of the soul, as even Plato says in his treatise on the\r\nSoul that shadowy phantoms of persons already dead have appeared\r\nto some around their sepulchres. Now the phantoms\r\nwhich exist about the soul of the dead are produced by some\r\nsubstance, and this substance is in the soul, which exists apart\r\nin a body said to be of splendid appearance.<a id=\"r170\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f170\"><sup>[170]</sup></a> But Celsus, unwilling\r\nto admit any such view, will have it that some dreamed\r\na waking dream,<a id=\"r171\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f171\"><sup>[171]</sup></a> and, under the influence of a perverted imagination,\r\nformed to themselves such an image as they desired.\r\nNow it is not irrational to believe that a dream may take place\r\nwhile one is asleep; but to suppose a waking vision in the case\r\nof those who are not altogether out of their senses, and under\r\nthe influence of delirium or hypochondria, is incredible. And\r\nCelsus, seeing this, called the woman “half-mad,”—a statement\r\nwhich is not made by the history recording the fact, but\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_64\">64</span>from which he took occasion to charge the occurrences with\r\nbeing untrue.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-105"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7830349f822f94f3e64eafe8c1e2dcfe5ab999b36e77b558bafe30344c8dd918","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-f170","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":"f170","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f170\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r170\">170</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὰ μὲν οὖν γινόμενα περὶ ψυχῆς τεθνηκότων φαντάσματα ἀπό τινος ὑποκειμένου\r\nγίνεται, τοῦ κατὰ τὴν ὑφεστηκυῖαν ἐν τῷ καλουμένῳ αὐγοειδεῖ σώματι\r\nψυχὴν.</span> <abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> note in Benedictine <abbr title=\"edition\">ed.</abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f170","text_sha256":"4245be96125207ae5b860f8c8ac44f9a690464207af2acf5505c1423938f6073","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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