Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">“But what the legends are of every kind which we gather\r\ntogether, or the terrors which we invent,” as Celsus without\r\nproof asserts, he who likes may show. I know not, indeed,\r\nwhat he means by “inventing terrors,” unless it be our doctrine of\r\nGod as Judge, and of the condemnation of men for their deeds,\r\nwith the various proofs derived partly from Scripture, partly\r\nfrom probable reason. And yet—for truth is precious—Celsus\r\nsays, at the close, “Forbid that either I, or these, or any other\r\nindividual should ever reject the doctrine respecting the future\r\npunishment of the wicked and the reward of the good!” What\r\nterrors, then, if you except the doctrine of punishment, do we\r\ninvent and impose upon mankind? And if he should reply\r\nthat “we weave together erroneous opinions drawn from\r\nancient sources, and trumpet them aloud, and sound them before\r\nmen, as the priests of Cybele clash their cymbals in the\r\nears of those who are being initiated in their mysteries;”<a id=\"r288\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f288\"><sup>[288]</sup></a> we\r\nshall ask him in reply, “Erroneous opinions from what ancient\r\nsources?” For, whether he refers to Grecian accounts, which\r\ntaught the existence of courts of justice under the earth, or\r\nJewish, which, among other things, predicted the life that follows\r\nthe present one; he will be unable to show that we who, striving\r\nto believe on grounds of reason, regulate our lives in conformity\r\nwith such doctrines, have failed correctly to ascertain the truth.<a id=\"r289\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f289\"><sup>[289]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-148"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0962fdf1e2033cf5bdb744cfaf10746ef10bd2aa6a73cc8722a77e0efbf368ad","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-f288","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":"f288","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f288\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r288\">288</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὰ τοῦ παλαιοῦ λόγου παρακούσματα συμπλάττοντες, τούτοις προκαταυλοῦμεν\r\nκαὶ προκατηχοῦμεν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους· ὡς οἱ τοὺς κορυβαντιζομένους\r\nπεριβομβοῦντες.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f288","text_sha256":"ab3a3847d75bb10bc593c70650c7d0488a5074d9c5c60cb83e941a1e820dcdfd","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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