Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But, according to Celsus, “the Christians, making certain\r\nadditional statements to those of the Jews, assert that the Son of\r\nGod has been already sent on account of the sins of the Jews;\r\nand that the Jews having chastised Jesus, and given him gall to\r\ndrink, have brought upon themselves the divine wrath.” And\r\nany one who likes may convict this statement of falsehood, if it\r\nbe not the case that the whole Jewish nation was overthrown\r\nwithin one single generation after Jesus had undergone these\r\nsufferings at their hands. For forty and two years, I think,\r\nafter the date of the crucifixion of Jesus, did the destruction\r\nof Jerusalem take place. Now it has never been recorded,\r\nsince the Jewish nation began to exist, that they have been\r\nexpelled for so long a period from their venerable temple-worship<a id=\"r548\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f548\"><sup>[548]</sup></a>\r\nand service, and enslaved by more powerful nations; for\r\nif at any time they appeared to be abandoned because of their\r\nsins, they were notwithstanding visited [by God],<a id=\"r549\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f549\"><sup>[549]</sup></a> and returned\r\nto their own country, and recovered their possessions,\r\nand performed unhindered the observances of their law. One\r\nfact, then, which proves that Jesus was something divine and\r\nsacred,<a id=\"r550\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f550\"><sup>[550]</sup></a> is this, that Jews should have suffered on His account\r\nnow for a lengthened time calamities of such severity. And\r\nwe say with confidence that they will never be restored to their\r\nformer condition.<a id=\"r551\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f551\"><sup>[551]</sup></a> For they committed a crime of the most\r\nunhallowed kind, in conspiring against the Saviour of the\r\nhuman race in that city where they offered up to God a worship\r\ncontaining the symbols of mighty mysteries. It accordingly\r\nbehoved that city where Jesus underwent these sufferings\r\nto perish utterly, and the Jewish nation to be overthrown, and\r\nthe invitation to happiness offered them by God to pass to\r\nothers,—the Christians, I mean, to whom has come the doctrine\r\nof a pure and holy worship, and who have obtained new laws,\r\nin harmony with the established constitution in all countries;<a id=\"r552\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f552\"><sup>[552]</sup></a>\r\nseeing those which were formerly imposed, as on a single\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_183\">183</span>nation which was ruled by princes of its own race and of similar\r\nmanners,<a id=\"r553\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f553\"><sup>[553]</sup></a> could not now be observed in all their entireness.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XXII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-241"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"88cea0accd4704e2bb501c216464703293685e47bf1255cbc45a6831c0388bf3","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-f548","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":"f548","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f548\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r548\">548</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἁγιστειας.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f548","text_sha256":"028c55b869ae8bb0e554282060ae94130e43e061ea72e265106f19656b7ff6de","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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