Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">It is probable, however, that to such remarks as the above,\r\nthe answer returned would be, that he was pious who kept the\r\nlaws of his <i>own</i> country, and not at all chargeable with impiety\r\nfor the non-observance of those of <i>other</i> lands; and that, again,\r\nhe who was deemed guilty of impiety among certain nations\r\nwas not really so, when he worshipped his own gods, agreeably\r\nto his country’s laws, although he made war against, and even\r\nfeasted on,<a id=\"r936\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f936\"><sup>[936]</sup></a> those who were regarded as divinities among those\r\nnations which possessed laws of an opposite kind. Now, observe\r\nhere whether these statements do not exhibit the greatest confusion\r\nof mind regarding the nature of what is just, and holy,\r\nand religious; since there is no accurate definition laid down of\r\nthese things, nor are they described as having a peculiar character\r\nof their own, and stamping as religious those who act\r\naccording to their injunctions. If, then, religion, and piety,\r\nand righteousness belong to those things which are so only by\r\ncomparison, so that the same act may be both pious and impious,\r\naccording to different relations and different laws, see whether\r\nit will not follow that temperance<a id=\"r937\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f937\"><sup>[937]</sup></a> also is a thing of comparison,\r\nand courage as well, and prudence, and the other virtues,\r\nthan which nothing could be more absurd! What we have\r\nsaid, however, is sufficient for the more general and simple\r\nclass of answers to the allegations of Celsus. But as we think\r\nit likely that some of those who are accustomed to deeper\r\ninvestigation will fall in with this treatise, let us venture to lay\r\ndown some considerations of a profounder kind, conveying a\r\nmystical and secret view respecting the original distribution of\r\nthe various quarters of the earth among different superintending\r\nspirits; and let us prove to the best of our ability, that our\r\ndoctrine is free from the absurd consequences enumerated above.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-355"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"962970f8fa15b281fae9b74c436ac33e300209b599adeafcd9256be6d3156550","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-f937","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":"f937","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f937\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r937\">937</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">σωφροσύνη.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f937","text_sha256":"91ba9df1caae886f5c7216775a04eb7e7cad16f7ea125e7b14790de5f23c4674","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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