Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Let us notice the charges which are next advanced by Celsus,\r\nin which there is exceedingly little that has reference to the\r\nChristians, as most of them refer to the Jews. His words are:\r\n“If, then, in these respects the Jews were carefully to preserve\r\ntheir own law, they are not to be blamed for so doing,\r\nbut those persons rather who have forsaken their own usages,\r\nand adopted those of the Jews. And if they pride themselves\r\non it, as being possessed of superior wisdom, and keep aloof\r\nfrom intercourse with others, as not being equally pure with\r\nthemselves, they have already heard that their doctrine concerning\r\nheaven is not peculiar to them, but, to pass by all\r\nothers, is one which has long ago been received by the Persians,\r\nas Herodotus somewhere mentions. ‘For they have a custom,’\r\nhe says, ‘of going up to the tops of the mountains, and of\r\noffering sacrifices to Jupiter, giving the name of Jupiter to\r\nthe whole circle of the heavens.’<a id=\"r979\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f979\"><sup>[979]</sup></a> And I think,” continues\r\nCelsus, “that it makes no difference whether you call the\r\nhighest being Zeus, or Zen, or Adonai, or Sabaoth, or Ammoun\r\nlike the Egyptians, or Pappæus like the Scythians.\r\nNor would they be deemed at all holier than others in this\r\nrespect, that they observe the rite of circumcision, for this was\r\ndone by the Egyptians and Colchians before them; nor because\r\nthey abstain from swine’s flesh, for the Egyptians practised\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_312\">312</span>abstinence not only from it, but from the flesh of goats, and\r\nsheep, and oxen, and fishes as well; while Pythagoras and his\r\ndisciples do not eat beans, nor anything that contains life. It\r\nis not probable, however, that they enjoy God’s favour, or are\r\nloved by Him differently from others, or that angels were\r\nsent from heaven to them alone, as if they had had allotted to\r\nthem ‘some region of the blessed,’<a id=\"r980\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f980\"><sup>[980]</sup></a> for we see both themselves\r\nand the country of which they were deemed worthy. Let this\r\nband,<a id=\"r981\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f981\"><sup>[981]</sup></a> then, take its departure, after paying the penalty of its\r\nvaunting, not having a knowledge of the great God, but being\r\nled away and deceived by the artifices of Moses, having become\r\nhis pupil to no good end.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter XLI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-368"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b5b1c5781c89d614e817889a2ae2f5fcf0c8b943e973690e4ca711b842d611b0","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-f981","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":"f981","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f981\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r981\">981</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">χορός.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f981","text_sha256":"33c3346253fc409fa08a88b5266089e61eef09188cd7854f0ac42b29ec6d51c8","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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