Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He imagines also that both the earthquake and the darkness\r\nwere an invention;<a id=\"r167\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f167\"><sup>[167]</sup></a> but regarding these, we have in the preceding\r\npages made our defence, according to our ability, adducing\r\nthe testimony of Phlegon, who relates that these events\r\ntook place at the time when our Saviour suffered. And he\r\ngoes on to say, that “Jesus, while alive, was of no assistance to\r\nhimself, but that he arose after death, and exhibited the marks\r\nof his punishment, and showed how his hands had been pierced\r\nby nails.” We ask him what he means by the expression, “was\r\nof no assistance to himself?” For if he means it to refer to want\r\nof virtue, we reply that He <i>was</i> of very great assistance. For\r\nHe neither uttered nor committed anything that was improper,\r\nbut was truly “led as a sheep to the slaughter, and was dumb\r\nas a lamb before the shearer;”<a id=\"r168\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f168\"><sup>[168]</sup></a> and the Gospel testifies that He\r\nopened not His mouth. But if Celsus applies the expression\r\nto things indifferent and corporeal,<a id=\"r169\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f169\"><sup>[169]</sup></a> [meaning that in such\r\nJesus could render no help to Himself,] we say that we have\r\nproved from the Gospels that He went voluntarily to encounter\r\nHis sufferings. Speaking next of the statements in the Gospels,\r\nthat after His resurrection He showed the marks of His punishment,\r\nand how His hands had been pierced, he asks, “Who\r\nbeheld this?” And discrediting the narrative of Mary Magdalene,\r\nwho is related to have seen Him, he replies, “A half-frantic\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_63\">63</span>woman, as ye state.” And because she is not the only\r\none who is recorded to have seen the Saviour after His resurrection,\r\nbut others also are mentioned, this Jew of Celsus\r\ncalumniates these statements also in adding, “And some one\r\nelse of those engaged in the same system of deception!”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-104"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d605085d37ef637aa65d31a02db11dbac58bf59c2ebf6176d6437e2fd7fa707a","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-f169","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":"f169","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f169\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r169\">169</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">εἰ δὲ τὸ “ἐπήρκεσεν” ἀπὸ τῶν μέσων καὶ σωματικῶν λαμβάνει.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f169","text_sha256":"78804df337c3c82c556ad24881d55983a47aca3d836efcf7496478bed87d8ae5","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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