Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">1. But as it is not sufficient, in the discussion of matters of\r\nsuch importance, to entrust the decision to the human senses\r\nand to the human understanding, and to pronounce on things\r\ninvisible as if they were seen by us,<a id=\"r769\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f769\"><sup>[769]</sup></a> we must, in order to\r\nestablish the positions which we have laid down, adduce the\r\ntestimony of Holy Scripture. And that this testimony may produce\r\na sure and unhesitating belief, either with regard to what\r\nwe have still to advance, or to what has been already stated, it\r\nseems necessary to show, in the first place, that the Scriptures\r\nthemselves are divine, <i>i.e.</i> were inspired by the Spirit of God.\r\nWe shall therefore with all possible brevity draw forth from\r\nthe Holy Scriptures themselves, such evidence on this point\r\nas may produce upon us a suitable impression, [making our\r\nquotations] from Moses, the first legislator of the Hebrew\r\nnation, and from the words of Jesus Christ, the Author and\r\nChief of the Christian religious system.<a id=\"r770\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f770\"><sup>[770]</sup></a> For although there\r\nhave been numerous legislators among the Greeks and Barbarians,\r\nand also countless teachers and philosophers who\r\nprofessed to declare the truth, we do not remember any legislator\r\nwho was able to produce in the minds of foreign nations\r\nan affection and a zeal [for him] such as led them either\r\nvoluntarily to adopt his laws, or to defend them with all the\r\nefforts of their mind. No one, then, has been able to introduce\r\nand make known what seemed to himself the truth,\r\namong, I do not say many foreign nations, but even amongst\r\nthe individuals of one single nation, in such a manner that a\r\nknowledge and belief of the same should extend to all. And\r\nyet there can be no doubt that it was the wish of the legislators\r\nthat their laws should be observed by all men, if\r\npossible; and of the teachers, that what appeared to themselves\r\nto be truth, should become known to all. But knowing\r\nthat they could by no means succeed in producing any such\r\nmighty power within them as would lead foreign nations to\r\nobey their laws, or have regard to their statements, they did\r\nnot venture even to essay the attempt, lest the failure of the\r\nundertaking should stamp their conduct with the mark of\r\nimprudence. And yet there are throughout the whole world—throughout\r\nall Greece, and all foreign countries—countless\r\nindividuals who have abandoned the laws of their\r\ncountry, and those whom they had believed to be gods, and\r\nhave yielded themselves up to the obedience of the law of\r\nMoses, and to the discipleship and worship of Christ; and have\r\ndone this, not without exciting against themselves the intense\r\nhatred of the worshippers of images, so as frequently to be\r\nexposed to cruel tortures from the latter, and sometimes even\r\nto be put to death. And yet they embrace, and with all\r\naffection preserve, the words and teaching of Christ.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER I. THAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE DIVINELY INSPIRED. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF RUFINUS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-284"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a6213caba23238d5d8e7c790d1472d2818cee363b74494436ed4b87af284a627","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f769","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f769","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f769\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r769\">769</a>.  </span><span lang=\"la\">Visibiliter de invisibilibus pronunciare.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f769","text_sha256":"6d771b3e03fac42c70455efdfab21a7fb8e547d60d2431800287bd1c601c030d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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