Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, Celsus, as is his custom, having neither\r\nproved nor established anything, proceeds to say, as if we talked\r\nof God in a manner that was neither holy nor pious, that “it\r\nis perfectly manifest that they babble about God in a way that\r\nis neither holy nor reverential;” and he imagines that we do\r\nthese things to excite the astonishment of the ignorant, and\r\nthat we do not speak the truth regarding the necessity of\r\npunishments for those who have sinned. And accordingly he\r\nlikens us to those who “in the Bacchic mysteries introduce\r\nphantoms and objects of terror.” With respect to the mysteries\r\nof Bacchus, whether there is any reliable account of\r\nthem, or none that is such, let the Greeks tell, and let Celsus\r\nand his boon-companions<a id=\"r506\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f506\"><sup>[506]</sup></a> listen. But we defend our own procedure,\r\nwhen we say that our object is to reform the human\r\nrace, either by the threats of punishments which we are persuaded\r\nare necessary for the whole world,<a id=\"r507\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f507\"><sup>[507]</sup></a> and which perhaps\r\nare not without use<a id=\"r508\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f508\"><sup>[508]</sup></a> to those who are to endure them; or by\r\nthe promises made to those who have lived virtuous lives, and\r\nin which are contained the statements regarding the blessed\r\ntermination which is to be found in the kingdom of God,\r\nreserved for those who are worthy of becoming His subjects.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter X."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-229"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b6ad566067eb5efb37a82c66071c446c7ec7068927eecafd7d9712c34832de22","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-f508","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":"f508","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f508\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r508\">508</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὐκ ἀχρήστους.</span> On Origen’s views respecting rewards and punishments,\r\n<abbr class=\"spell\">cf.</abbr> Huet’s <i>Origeniana</i>, Book <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> question <abbr title=\"eleven\">xi.</abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f508","text_sha256":"24c4bf3917f6e2a412c59f0d78acf568e63ac0df22a5588077d2e6608bec089b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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