Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">It is in the precincts of Jerusalem, then, that punishments\r\nwill be inflicted upon those who undergo the process of purification,<a id=\"r1167\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1167\"><sup>[1167]</sup></a>\r\nwho have received into the substance of their soul the\r\nelements of wickedness, which in a certain place<a id=\"r1168\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1168\"><sup>[1168]</sup></a> is figuratively\r\ntermed “lead,” and on that account iniquity is represented in\r\nZechariah as sitting upon a “talent of lead.”<a id=\"r1169\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1169\"><sup>[1169]</sup></a> But the remarks\r\nwhich might be made on this topic are neither to be made to\r\nall, nor to be uttered on the present occasion; for it is not\r\nunattended with danger to commit to writing the explanation\r\nof such subjects, seeing the multitude need no further instruction\r\nthan that which relates to the punishment of sinners;\r\nwhile to ascend beyond this is not expedient, for the sake of\r\nthose who are with difficulty restrained, even by fear of eternal\r\npunishment, from plunging into any degree of wickedness, and\r\ninto the flood of evils which result from sin. The doctrine of\r\nGeenna, then, is unknown both to the Diagram and to Celsus:\r\nfor had it been otherwise, the framers of the former would not\r\nhave boasted of their pictures of animals and diagrams, as if the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_365\">365</span>truth were represented by these; nor would Celsus, in his treatise\r\nagainst the Christians, have introduced among the charges\r\ndirected against them statements which they never uttered,\r\ninstead of what was spoken by some who perhaps are no longer\r\nin existence, but have altogether disappeared, or been reduced\r\nto a very few individuals, and these easily counted. And as it\r\ndoes not beseem those who profess the doctrines of Plato to offer\r\na defence of Epicurus and his impious opinions, so neither is\r\nit for us to defend the diagram, or to refute the accusations\r\nbrought against it by Celsus. We may therefore allow his\r\ncharges on these points to pass as superfluous and useless,<a id=\"r1170\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1170\"><sup>[1170]</sup></a> for\r\nwe would censure more severely than Celsus any who should\r\nbe carried away by such opinions.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter XXVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-419"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ce84290e44e0e57355b2ced189710cff8a8b7765983fe77177021483d2e3b021","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-f1167","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":"f1167","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1167\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1167\">1167</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">χωνευομένων.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1167","text_sha256":"56e6d830906ac98f6d3f37fe07c74b9b714a169f1ea217303e5a67f9c87295b9","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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