Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus proceeds as follows: “With regard to the origin of\r\nthe world and its destruction, whether it is to be regarded as\r\nuncreated and indestructible, or as created indeed, but not destructible,\r\nor the reverse, I at present say nothing.” For this\r\nreason we too say nothing on these points, as the work in hand\r\ndoes not require it. Nor do we allege that the Spirit of the\r\nuniversal God mingled itself in things here below as in things\r\nalien to itself,<a id=\"r1285\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1285\"><sup>[1285]</sup></a> as might appear from the expression, “The\r\nSpirit of God moved upon the water;” nor do we assert that\r\ncertain wicked devices directed against His Spirit, as if by a\r\ndifferent creator from the great God, and which were tolerated\r\nby the Supreme Divinity, needed to be completely frustrated.\r\nAnd, accordingly, I have nothing further to say to those<a id=\"r1286\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1286\"><sup>[1286]</sup></a> who\r\nutter such absurdities; nor to Celsus, who does not refute them\r\nwith ability. For he ought either <i>not</i> to have mentioned such\r\nmatters at all, or else, in keeping with that character for\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_394\">394</span>philanthropy which he assumes, have carefully set them forth,\r\nand then endeavoured to rebut these impious assertions. Nor\r\nhave we ever heard that the great God, after giving his spirit\r\nto the creator, demands it back again. Proceeding next foolishly\r\nto assail these impious assertions, he asks: “What god\r\ngives anything with the intention of demanding it back? For\r\nit is the mark of a needy person to demand back [what he has\r\ngiven], whereas God stands in need of nothing.” To this he\r\nadds, as if saying something clever against certain parties:\r\n“Why, when he lent [his spirit], was he ignorant that he was\r\nlending it to an evil being?” He asks, further: “Why does\r\nhe pass without notice<a id=\"r1287\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1287\"><sup>[1287]</sup></a> a wicked creator who was counter-working\r\nhis purposes?”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-447"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f8823707c3a40cebd6ae8039560160acf315ee9a04830d0336cbcc520df7a968","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-f1287","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":"f1287","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1287\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1287\">1287</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">περιορᾷ.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1287","text_sha256":"ecb4f0e73aa74b58d05342e57f2f8d447c2cd0ef21c2754a86fe3acd559a0dca","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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