Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">It is probable, however, that he meant to convey some such\r\nmeaning as this, that those who were both by nature and habit\r\ngiven to the commission of those sins which are committed by\r\nthe most abandoned of men, could not be completely transformed\r\neven by punishment. And yet this is shown to be false\r\nfrom the history of certain philosophers. For who is there that\r\nwould not rank among the most abandoned of men the individual\r\nwho somehow submitted to yield himself to his master,\r\nwhen he placed him in a brothel,<a id=\"r439\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f439\"><sup>[439]</sup></a> that he might allow himself\r\nto be polluted by any one who liked? And yet such a circumstance\r\nis related of Phædo! And who will not agree that he\r\nwho burst, accompanied with a flute-player and a party of\r\nrevellers, his profligate associates, into the school of the venerable\r\nXenocrates, to insult a man who was the admiration of his\r\nfriends, was not one of the greatest miscreants<a id=\"r440\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f440\"><sup>[440]</sup></a> among mankind?\r\nYet, notwithstanding this, reason was powerful enough\r\nto effect their conversion, and to enable them to make such\r\nprogress in philosophy, that the one was deemed worthy by\r\nPlato to recount the discourse of Socrates on immortality, and\r\nto record his firmness in prison, when he evinced his contempt\r\nof the hemlock, and with all fearlessness and tranquillity of\r\nmind treated of subjects so numerous and important, that it is\r\ndifficult even for those to follow them who are giving their\r\nutmost attention, and who are disturbed by no distraction; while\r\nPolemon, on the other hand, who from a profligate became a\r\nman of most temperate life, was successor in the school of Xenocrates,\r\nso celebrated for his venerable character. Celsus then\r\ndoes not speak the truth when he says “that sinners by nature\r\nand habit cannot be completely reformed even by chastisement.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-204"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"027c444c0cbeb23bf303e4f124649b37f558a4f60f811a5b7f4a588caa28c3c9","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-f439","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":"f439","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f439\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r439\">439</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἐπὶ τέγους.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f439","text_sha256":"39882b63bb9598225bbe9da8ca82adfc12f9e083b53036d664acc6605c23c319","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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