Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">We have now, then, to refute that statement of his which\r\nruns as follows: “O Jews and Christians, no God or son of\r\na God either came or will come down [to earth]. But if you\r\nmean that certain angels did so, then what do you call them?\r\nAre they gods, or some other race of beings? Some other race\r\nof beings [doubtless], and in all probability demons.” Now\r\nas Celsus here is guilty of repeating himself (for in the preceding\r\npages such assertions have been frequently advanced\r\nby him), it is unnecessary to discuss the matter at greater\r\nlength, seeing what we have already said upon this point may\r\nsuffice. We shall mention, however, a few considerations out\r\nof a greater number, such as we deem in harmony with our\r\nformer arguments, but which have not altogether the same\r\nbearing as they, and by which we shall show that in asserting\r\ngenerally that no God, or son of God, ever descended\r\n[among men], he overturns not only the opinions entertained\r\nby the majority of mankind regarding the manifestation of\r\nDeity, but also what was formerly admitted by himself. For\r\nif the general statement, that “no God or son of God has\r\ncome down or will come down,” be truly maintained by Celsus,\r\nit is manifest that we have here overthrown the belief in the\r\nexistence of gods upon the earth who had descended from\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_270\">270</span>heaven either to predict the future to mankind or to heal them\r\nby means of divine responses; and neither the Pythian Apollo,\r\nnor Esculapius, nor any other among those supposed to have\r\ndone so, would be a god descended from heaven. He might,\r\nindeed, either be a god who had obtained as his lot [the obligation]\r\nto dwell on earth for ever, and be thus a fugitive, as it\r\nwere, from the abode of the gods, or he might be one who had\r\nno power to share in the society of the gods in heaven;<a id=\"r846\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f846\"><sup>[846]</sup></a> or else\r\nApollo, and Esculapius, and those others who are believed to\r\nperform acts on earth, would not be gods, but only certain\r\ndemons, much inferior to those wise men among mankind, who\r\non account of their virtue ascend to the vault<a id=\"r847\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f847\"><sup>[847]</sup></a> of heaven.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter II."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-329"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"41c9887cc358ce163197a1462f2d44f7a6fe0664f5430eadcc63ce46ed0d9c0c","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-f847","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":"f847","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f847\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r847\">847</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἁψίδα.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f847","text_sha256":"eb005adc1ab20b70b50714dff161216ca1d4c7eb02f05992f31eade9f981f97c","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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