Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The Jew next remarks: “You, O sincere believers,<a id=\"r120\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f120\"><sup>[120]</sup></a> find\r\nfault with us, because we do not recognise this individual as\r\nGod, nor agree with you that he endured these [sufferings]\r\nfor the benefit of mankind, in order that we also might despise\r\npunishment.” Now, in answer to this, we say that we blame\r\nthe Jews, who have been brought up under the training of the\r\nlaw and the prophets (which foretell the coming of Christ),\r\nbecause they neither refute the arguments which we lay before\r\nthem to prove that He is the Messiah,<a id=\"r121\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f121\"><sup>[121]</sup></a> adducing such refutation\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_42\">42</span>as a defence of their unbelief; nor yet, while not offering\r\nany refutation, do they believe in Him who was the subject of\r\nprophecy, and who clearly manifested through His disciples, even\r\nafter the period of His appearance in the flesh, that He underwent\r\nthese things for the benefit of mankind; having, as the\r\nobject of His first advent, not to condemn men and their actions<a id=\"r122\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f122\"><sup>[122]</sup></a>\r\nbefore He had instructed them, and pointed out to them their\r\nduty,<a id=\"r123\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f123\"><sup>[123]</sup></a> nor to chastise the wicked and save the good, but to disseminate\r\nHis doctrine in an extraordinary<a id=\"r124\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f124\"><sup>[124]</sup></a> manner, and with\r\nthe evidence of divine power, among the whole human race, as\r\nthe prophets also have represented these things. And we blame\r\nthem, moreover, because they did not believe in Him who gave\r\nevidence of the power that was in Him, but asserted that He\r\ncast out demons from the souls of men through Beelzebub the\r\nprince of the demons; and we blame them because they slander\r\nthe philanthropic character of Him, who overlooked not only\r\nno city, but not even a single village in Judea, that He might\r\neverywhere announce the kingdom of God, accusing Him of\r\nleading the wandering life of a vagabond, and passing an anxious\r\nexistence in a disgraceful body. But there is no disgrace in\r\nenduring such labours for the benefit of all those who may be\r\nable to understand Him.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter XXXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-82"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fed527388b677166dc6e4921e314b49b7e27d85468b63fb68e7f39ef39cb2889","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-f120","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":"f120","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f120\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r120\">120</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">ὡ πιστότατοι.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f120","text_sha256":"a47e94dbf54191562e479459e5715ea55382045885b06f0bc4f32d0038694625","verified":false,"work_id":null}

references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f120