Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c007\">He gives it as his opinion, that “the controversy between\r\nJews and Christians is a most foolish one,” and asserts that\r\n“the discussions which we have with each other regarding\r\nChrist differ in no respect from what is called in the proverb\r\n‘a fight about the shadow of an ass;’”<a id=\"r249\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f249\"><sup>[249]</sup></a> and thinks that\r\n“there is nothing of importance<a id=\"r250\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f250\"><sup>[250]</sup></a> in the investigations of the\r\nJews and Christians: for both believe that it was predicted by\r\nthe Divine Spirit that one was to come as a Saviour to the\r\nhuman race, but do not yet agree on the point whether the\r\nperson predicted has actually come or not.” For we Christians,\r\nindeed, have believed in Jesus, as He who came according to\r\nthe predictions of the prophets. But the majority of the Jews\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_86\">86</span>are so far from believing in Him, that those of them who lived\r\nat the time of His coming conspired against Him; and those\r\nof the present day, approving of what the Jews of former\r\ntimes dared to do against Him, speak evil of Him, asserting\r\nthat it was by means of sorcery<a id=\"r251\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f251\"><sup>[251]</sup></a> that he passed himself off for\r\nHim who was predicted by the prophets as the One who was to\r\ncome, and who was called, agreeably to the traditions of the\r\nJews,<a id=\"r252\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f252\"><sup>[252]</sup></a> the Christ.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter I."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-133"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d0780c396628711142e5964423ceecd28c7a596226ad31b428359c280fba94aa","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-f249","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":"f249","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f249\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r249\">249</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν καλουμένης ὄνου σκιᾶς μάχης.</span> On this proverb,\r\nsee Zenobius, <i>Centuria Sexta</i>, adag. 28, and the note of Schottius. <abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> also\r\nSuidas, <abbr class=\"spell\"><i>s.v.</i></abbr> ὄνου σκία.—<span class=\"sc\">De la Rue.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f249","text_sha256":"9252239acbef15d15842d0437f42d3173c5790ff913d9d672fa7aeeee9a8e593","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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