Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">1. Since, in our investigation of matters of such importance,\r\nnot satisfied with the common opinions, and with the\r\nclear evidence of visible things,<a id=\"r771\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f771\"><sup>[771]</sup></a> we take in addition, for the\r\nproof of our statements, testimonies from what are believed\r\nby us to be divine writings, viz. from that which is called\r\nthe Old Testament, and that which is styled the New, and\r\nendeavour by reason to confirm our faith; and as we have\r\nnot yet spoken of the Scriptures as divine, come and let us,\r\nas if by way of an epitome, treat of a few points respecting\r\nthem, laying down those reasons which lead us to regard\r\nthem as divine writings. And before making use of the\r\nwords of the writings themselves, and of the things which\r\nare exhibited in them, we must make the following statement\r\nregarding Moses and Jesus Christ,—the lawgiver of the\r\nHebrews, and the Introducer of the saving doctrines according\r\nto Christianity. For, although there have been very\r\nmany legislators among the Greeks and Barbarians, and\r\nteachers who announced opinions which professed to be the\r\ntruth, we have heard of no legislator who was able to imbue\r\nother nations with a zeal for the reception of his words;\r\nand although those who professed to philosophize about truth\r\nbrought forward a great apparatus of apparent logical demonstration,\r\nno one has been able to impress what was deemed\r\nby him the truth upon other nations, or even on any number\r\nof persons worth mentioning in a single nation. And yet\r\nnot only would the legislators have liked to enforce those laws\r\nwhich appeared to be good, if possible, upon the whole human\r\nrace, but the teachers also to have spread what they imagined\r\nto be truth everywhere throughout the world. But as they\r\nwere unable to call men of other languages and from many\r\nnations to observe their laws, and accept their teaching, they\r\ndid not at all attempt to do this, considering not unwisely the\r\nimpossibility of such a result happening to them. Whereas\r\nall Greece, and the barbarous part of our world, contains\r\ninnumerable zealots, who have deserted the laws of their\r\nfathers and the established gods, for the observance of the\r\nlaws of Moses and the discipleship of the words of Jesus\r\nChrist; although those who clave to the law of Moses were\r\nhated by the worshippers of images, and those who accepted\r\nthe words of Jesus Christ were exposed, in addition, to the\r\ndanger of death.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN DE PRINCIPIIS.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER I."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-288"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"34635067e0d041da8302e05ef4493512186a599b157d17d3da86b65300d40b51","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f771","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":"f771","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f771\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r771\">771</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τῇ ἐναργείᾳ τῶν βλεπομένων.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f771","text_sha256":"c0c7964a40766ca784f080f86536d952efc6abf32e209e1dfb364b794dac4932","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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