Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In my opinion, however, it is certain wicked demons, and, so\r\nto speak, of the race of Titans or Giants, who have been guilty\r\nof impiety towards the true God, and towards the angels in\r\nheaven, and who have fallen from it, and who haunt the\r\ndenser parts of bodies, and frequent unclean places upon earth,\r\nand who, possessing some power of distinguishing future events,\r\nbecause they are without bodies of earthly material, engage in\r\nan employment of this kind, and desiring to lead the human\r\nrace away from the true God, secretly enter the bodies of the\r\nmore rapacious and savage and wicked of animals, and stir\r\nthem up to do whatever they choose, and at whatever time they\r\nchoose: either turning the fancies of these animals to make\r\nflights and movements of various kinds, in order that men may\r\nbe caught by the divining power that is in the irrational\r\nanimals, and neglect to seek after the God who contains all\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_260\">260</span>things; or to search after the pure worship of God, but allow\r\ntheir reasoning powers to grovel on the earth, and amongst\r\nbirds and serpents, and even foxes and wolves. For it has\r\nbeen observed by those who are skilled in such matters, that\r\nthe clearest prognostications are obtained from animals of this\r\nkind; because the demons cannot act so effectively in the\r\nmilder sort of animals as they can in these, in consequence\r\nof the similarity between them in point of wickedness; and\r\nyet it is not wickedness, but something like wickedness,<a id=\"r822\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f822\"><sup>[822]</sup></a> which\r\nexists in these animals.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XCII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-317"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"54c40da4e7f8bd5cd05c564120567d038be4a71cd486766727868e5d85116388","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-f822","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":"f822","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f822\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r822\">822</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">καὶ οὐ κακίαν μὲν, οἱονεὶ δὲ κακίαν οὖσαν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f822","text_sha256":"332b5f19b54c649a38f50975fdb247a486cef8e2b926b182bbdf05d8bca37a3f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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