Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">For we inquire of all those who employ such invocations of\r\nGod, saying: Tell us, friends, who was Abraham, and what sort\r\nof person was Isaac, and what power did Jacob possess, that the\r\nappellation “God,” when joined with their name, could effect\r\nsuch wonders? And from whom have you learned, or can you\r\nlearn, the facts relating to these individuals? And who has\r\noccupied himself with writing a history about them, either\r\ndirectly magnifying these men by ascribing to them mysterious\r\npowers, or hinting obscurely at their possession of certain great\r\nand marvellous qualities, patent to those who are qualified to\r\nsee them?<a id=\"r613\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f613\"><sup>[613]</sup></a> And when, in answer to our inquiry, no one can\r\nshow from what history—whether Greek or barbarian—or, if\r\nnot a history, yet at least from what mystical narrative,<a id=\"r614\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f614\"><sup>[614]</sup></a> the\r\naccounts of these men are derived, we shall bring forward the\r\nbook entitled “Genesis,” which contains the acts of these men,\r\nand the divine oracles addressed to them, and will say, Does\r\nnot the use by you of the names of these three ancestors of\r\nthe race, establishing in the clearest manner that effects not to\r\nbe lightly regarded are produced by the invocation of them,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_197\">197</span>evidence the divinity of the men?<a id=\"r615\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f615\"><sup>[615]</sup></a> And yet we know them\r\nfrom no other source than the sacred books of the Jews!\r\nMoreover, the phrases, “the God of Israel,” and “the God of\r\nthe Hebrews,” and “the God who drowned in the Red Sea the\r\nking of Egypt and the Egyptians,” are <i>formulæ</i> frequently\r\nemployed against demons and certain wicked powers. And we\r\nlearn the history of the names and their interpretation from\r\nthose Hebrews, who in their national literature and national\r\ntongue dwell with pride upon these things, and explain their\r\nmeaning. How, then, should the Jews attempt to derive their\r\norigin from the first race of those whom Celsus supposed to\r\nbe jugglers and deceivers, and shamelessly endeavour to trace\r\nthemselves and their beginning back to these?—whose names,\r\nbeing Hebrew, are an evidence to the Hebrews, who have their\r\nsacred books written in the Hebrew language and letters, that\r\ntheir nation is akin to these men. For up to the present time,\r\nthe Jewish names belonging to the Hebrew language were\r\neither taken from their writings, or generally from words the\r\nmeaning of which was made known by the Hebrew language.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-253"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ddcb1f4a3ebe31efc5e3d4c15b4c07e68059656d643a7eba6cf05195d143c791","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-f614","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":"f614","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f614\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r614\">614</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">μυστικῆς ἀναγραφῆς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f614","text_sha256":"52650c2e0b87fe7b7bee335e095551e370c0a97f6cda5ade715cedded0190f6a","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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