Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The Jew, then, continues his address to converts from his\r\nown nation thus: “Yesterday and the day before, when we\r\nvisited with punishment the man who deluded you, ye became\r\napostates from the law of your fathers;” showing by such statements\r\n(as we have just demonstrated) anything but an exact\r\nknowledge of the truth. But what he advances afterwards\r\nseems to have some force, when he says: “How is it that you\r\ntake the beginning of your system from our worship, and when\r\nyou have made some progress you treat it with disrespect,\r\nalthough you have no other foundation to show for your doctrines\r\nthan our law?” Now, certainly the introduction to\r\nChristianity is through the Mosaic worship and the prophetic\r\nwritings; and after the introduction, it is in the interpretation\r\nand explanation of these that progress takes place, while those\r\nwho are introduced prosecute their investigations into “the\r\nmystery according to revelation, which was kept secret since\r\nthe world began, but now is made manifest in the Scriptures\r\nof the prophets,”<a id=\"r43\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f43\"><sup>[43]</sup></a> and by the appearance of our Lord Jesus\r\nChrist. But they who advance in the knowledge of Christianity\r\ndo not, as ye allege, treat the things written in the\r\nlaw with disrespect. On the contrary, they bestow upon them\r\ngreater honour, showing what a depth of wise and mysterious\r\nreasons is contained in these writings, which are not fully\r\ncomprehended by the Jews, who treat them superficially, and\r\nas if they were in some degree even fabulous.<a id=\"r44\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f44\"><sup>[44]</sup></a> And what\r\nabsurdity should there be in our system—that is, the gospel—having\r\nthe law for its foundation, when even the Lord Jesus\r\nHimself said to those who would not believe upon Him: “If\r\nye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote\r\nof me. But if ye do not believe his writings, how shall ye believe\r\nmy words?”<a id=\"r45\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f45\"><sup>[45]</sup></a> Nay, even one of the evangelists—Mark—says:\r\n“The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as it\r\nis written in the prophet Isaiah, Behold, I send my messenger\r\nbefore Thy face, who shall prepare Thy way before Thee,”<a id=\"r46\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f46\"><sup>[46]</sup></a>\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_7\">7</span>which shows that the beginning of the gospel is connected\r\nwith the Jewish writings. What force, then, is there in the\r\nobjection of the Jew of Celsus, that “if any one predicted\r\nto us that the Son of God was to visit mankind, he was one of\r\nour prophets, and the prophet of our God?” Or how is it a\r\ncharge against Christianity, that John, who baptized Jesus, was\r\na Jew? For although He was a Jew, it does not follow that\r\nevery believer, whether a convert from heathenism or from\r\nJudaism, must yield a literal obedience to the law of Moses.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter IV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-43"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d4b2d44f29b84d311e28d12f2928608b8d3b0d2420303142b003ef295ec05dc1","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-f44","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":"f44","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f44\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r44\">44</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τῶν ἐπιπολαιότερον καὶ μυθικώτερον αὐτοῖς ἐντυγκανόντων.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f44","text_sha256":"2ab10b3bb74eb6cba3932ecc4535a450a81ffb5ff938edb7b45c393c472b6450","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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