Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">2. You begin by saying, that when, in my discussion\r\nwith our friend Bassus, I used the Scripture which contains\r\nthe prophecy of Daniel when yet a young man in the\r\naffair of Susanna, I did this as if it had escaped me that\r\nthis part of the book was spurious. You say that you praise\r\nthis passage as elegantly written, but find fault with it as a\r\nmore modern composition, and a forgery; and you add that\r\nthe forger has had recourse to something which not even\r\nPhilistion the play-writer would have used in his puns between\r\n<span lang=\"grc\"><i>prinos</i></span> and <span lang=\"grc\"><i>prisein</i></span>, <span lang=\"grc\"><i>schinos</i></span> and <span lang=\"grc\"><i>schisis</i></span>, which words as\r\nthey sound in Greek can be used in this way, but not in\r\nHebrew. In answer to this, I have to tell you what it behoves\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_372\">372</span>us to do in the cases not only of the History of Susanna,\r\nwhich is found in every church of Christ in that Greek\r\ncopy which the Greeks use, but is not in the Hebrew, or of\r\nthe two other passages you mention at the end of the book\r\ncontaining the history of Bel and the Dragon, which likewise\r\nare not in the Hebrew copy of Daniel; but of thousands of\r\nother passages also which I found in many places when with\r\nmy little strength I was collating the Hebrew copies with\r\nours. For in Daniel itself I found the word “bound” followed\r\nin our versions by very many verses which are not in\r\nthe Hebrew at all, beginning (according to one of the copies\r\nwhich circulate in the churches) thus: “Ananias, and\r\nAzarias, and Misael prayed and sang unto God,” down to\r\n“O, all ye that worship the Lord, bless ye the God of gods.\r\nPraise Him, and say that His mercy endureth for ever and\r\never. And it came to pass, when the king heard them singing,\r\nand saw them that they were alive.” Or, as in another\r\ncopy, from “And they walked in the midst of the fire, praising\r\nGod and blessing the Lord,” down to “O, all ye that worship\r\nthe Lord, bless ye the God of gods. Praise Him, and say\r\nthat His mercy endureth to all generations.”<a id=\"r1083\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1083\"><sup>[1083]</sup></a> But in the\r\nHebrew copies the words, “And these three men, Sedrach,\r\nMisach, and Abdenego fell down bound into the midst of the\r\nfire,” are immediately followed by the verse, “Nabouchodonosor\r\nthe king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake,\r\nand said unto his counsellors.” For so Aquila, following the\r\nHebrew reading, gives it, who has obtained the credit among\r\nthe Jews of having interpreted the Scriptures with no ordinary\r\ncare, and whose version is most commonly used by those\r\nwho do not know Hebrew, as the one which has been most\r\nsuccessful. Of the copies in my possession whose readings\r\nI gave, one follows the Seventy, and the other Theodotion;\r\nand just as the History of Susanna which you call a forgery\r\nis found in both, together with the passages at the end of\r\nDaniel, so they give also these passages, amounting, to make\r\na rough guess, to more than two hundred verses.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","LETTERS.","A LETTER FROM ORIGEN TO AFRICANUS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-361"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a0814f546cab716e4da3b54da997282350c2707fe4c62a4945711e8b9671a6c6","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1083","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":"f1083","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1083\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1083\">1083</a>.  </span>The Song of the Three Holy Children in the Apocrypha.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1083","text_sha256":"63e3db4bc06af9308a6b63e0c734ca06e65b97d27129c81b7fdd8cc37341172b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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