Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Moreover, since Celsus asserts that “the soul is the work\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_223\">223</span>of God, but that the nature of body is different; and that in\r\nthis respect there is no difference between the body of a bat, or\r\nof a worm, or of a frog, and that of a man, for the matter is\r\nthe same, and their corruptible part alike,”—we have to say in\r\nanswer to this argument of his, that if, since the same matter\r\nunderlies the body of a bat, or of a worm, or of a frog, or of a\r\nman, these bodies will differ in no respect from one another, it\r\nis evident then that these bodies also will differ in no respect\r\nfrom the sun, or the moon, or the stars, or the sky, or any other\r\nthing which is called by the Greeks a god, cognisable by the\r\nsenses.<a id=\"r713\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f713\"><sup>[713]</sup></a> For the same matter, underlying <i>all</i> bodies, is, properly\r\nspeaking, without qualities and without form, and derives\r\nits qualities from some [other] source, I know not whence, since\r\nCelsus will have it that nothing corruptible can be the work of\r\nGod. Now the corruptible part of everything whatever, being\r\nproduced from the same underlying matter, must necessarily\r\nbe the same, by Celsus’ own showing; unless, indeed, finding\r\nhimself here hard pressed, he should desert Plato, who makes\r\nthe soul arise from a certain bowl,<a id=\"r714\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f714\"><sup>[714]</sup></a> and take refuge with\r\nAristotle and the Peripatetics, who maintain that the ether is\r\n<i>immaterial</i>,<a id=\"r715\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f715\"><sup>[715]</sup></a> and consists of a fifth nature, separate from the\r\nother four elements,<a id=\"r716\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f716\"><sup>[716]</sup></a> against which view both the Platonists and\r\nthe Stoics have nobly protested. And we too, who are despised\r\nby Celsus, will contravene it, seeing we are required to explain\r\nand maintain the following statement of the prophet: “The\r\nheavens shall perish, but Thou remainest: and they all shall\r\nwax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt Thou fold them\r\nup, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same.”<a id=\"r717\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f717\"><sup>[717]</sup></a> These\r\nremarks, however, are sufficient in reply to Celsus, when he\r\nasserts that “the soul is the work of God, but that the nature\r\nof body is different;” for from his argument it follows that\r\nthere is no difference between the body of a bat, or of a worm,\r\nor of a frog, and that of a heavenly<a id=\"r718\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f718\"><sup>[718]</sup></a> being.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter LVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-277"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4f907c8531565373bb863eb737427cf10903defafadc3394be99fb1650151ccf","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-f716","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":"f716","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f716\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r716\">716</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">πέμπτης παρὰ τὰ τέσσαρα στοιχεῖα εἶναι φύσεως.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f716","text_sha256":"450615e8b73a394a98b8acafb953edca7bb3ed3b970ca5863e4abeed16960d50","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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