Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Immediately after these points, Celsus, imagining that the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_89\">89</span>Jews are Egyptians by descent, and had abandoned Egypt, after\r\nrevolting against the Egyptian state, and despising the customs of\r\nthat people in matters of worship, says that “they suffered from\r\nthe adherents of Jesus, who believed in Him as the Christ, the\r\nsame treatment which they had inflicted upon the Egyptians;\r\nand that the cause which led to the new state of things<a id=\"r263\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f263\"><sup>[263]</sup></a> in\r\neither instance was rebellion against the state.” Now let us\r\nobserve what Celsus has here done. The ancient Egyptians,\r\nafter inflicting many cruelties upon the Hebrew race, who had\r\nsettled in Egypt owing to a famine which had broken out in\r\nJudea, suffered, in consequence of their injustice to strangers\r\nand suppliants, that punishment which divine Providence had\r\ndecreed was to fall on the whole nation for having combined\r\nagainst an entire people, who had been their guests, and who had\r\ndone them no harm; and after being smitten by plagues from\r\nGod, they allowed them, with difficulty, and after a brief period,\r\nto go wherever they liked, as being unjustly detained in slavery.\r\nBecause, then, they were a selfish people, who honoured those\r\nwho were in any degree related to them far more than they did\r\nstrangers of better lives, there is not an accusation which they\r\nhave omitted to bring against Moses and the Hebrews,—not altogether\r\ndenying, indeed, the miracles and wonders done by him,\r\nbut alleging that they were wrought by sorcery, and not by\r\ndivine power. Moses, however, not as a magician, but as a\r\ndevout man, and one devoted to the God of all things, and a\r\npartaker in the divine Spirit, both enacted laws for the Hebrews,\r\naccording to the suggestions of the Divinity, and recorded events\r\nas they happened with perfect fidelity.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter V."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-137"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8502e7098d810bb92a587903cd7cf80664cee591be52585f822a8bddce27eea6","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-f263","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":"f263","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f263\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r263\">263</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">Τῆς καινοτομίας.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f263","text_sha256":"0b358d5552f473d328c28551597f57c660a0b2d3dbd75fb5accfd0d941e8d16c","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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