Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c012\">Now the Jews are not much acquainted with Greek literature;\r\nbut suppose that there was a Jew so well versed in it [as to\r\nmake such a quotation on his part appropriate], how [does it\r\nfollow] that Jesus <i>could</i> not liberate Himself, because He did\r\nnot do so? For let him believe from our own Scriptures that\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_39\">39</span>Peter obtained his freedom after having been bound in prison,\r\nan angel having loosed his chains; and that Paul, having been\r\nbound in the stocks along with Silas in Philippi of Macedonia,\r\nwas liberated by divine power, when the gates of the prison\r\nwere opened. But it is probable that Celsus treats these accounts\r\nwith ridicule, or that he never read them; for he would\r\nprobably say in reply, that there are certain sorcerers who are\r\nable by incantations to unloose chains and to open doors, so that\r\nhe would liken the events related in our histories to the doings\r\nof sorcerers. “But,” he continues, “no calamity happened\r\neven to him who condemned him, as there did to Pentheus,\r\nviz. madness or discerption.”<a id=\"r113\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f113\"><sup>[113]</sup></a> And yet he does not know\r\nthat it was not so much Pilate that condemned Him (who knew\r\nthat “for envy the Jews had delivered Him”), as the Jewish\r\nnation, which <i>has</i> been condemned by God, and rent in pieces,\r\nand dispersed over the whole earth, in a degree far beyond\r\nwhat happened to Pentheus. Moreover, why did he intentionally\r\nomit what is related of Pilate’s wife, who beheld a\r\nvision, and who was so moved by it as to send a message to her\r\nhusband, saying: “Have thou nothing to do with that just\r\nman; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because\r\nof him?”<a id=\"r114\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f114\"><sup>[114]</sup></a> And again, passing by in silence the proofs\r\nof the divinity of Jesus, Celsus endeavours to cast reproach\r\nupon Him from the narratives in the Gospel, referring to those\r\nwho mocked Jesus, and put on Him the purple robe, and the\r\ncrown of thorns, and placed the reed in His hand. From what\r\nsource now, Celsus, did you derive these statements, save from\r\nthe Gospel narratives? And did you, accordingly, see that they\r\nwere fit matters for reproach, while they who recorded them\r\ndid not think that you, and such as you, would turn them into\r\nridicule; but that others would receive from them an example\r\nhow to despise those who ridiculed and mocked Him on account of\r\nHis religion, who appropriately laid down His life for its sake?\r\nAdmire rather their love of truth, and that of the Being who\r\nbore these things voluntarily for the sake of men, and who\r\nendured them with all constancy and long-suffering. For it is\r\nnot recorded that He uttered any lamentation, or that after His\r\ncondemnation He either did or uttered anything unbecoming.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-78"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"302490ab91b07660f32fda9a9dc845d02e182c56461f597cc40b5eea3d3d4278","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-f113","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":"f113","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f113\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r113\">113</a>.  </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Eusebius\">Euseb.</abbr> <i><abbr title=\"Historia Ecclesiastica\">Hist. Eccles.</abbr></i> <abbr title=\"book\">b.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> <abbr title=\"chapter\">c.</abbr> <abbr title=\"seven\">vii.</abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f113","text_sha256":"ba2a749c9d7d585a823c3867b7113798d7fe51b58054a295665bbfa25663ff01","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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