Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But as he next introduces the case of the favourite of Adrian\r\n(I refer to the accounts regarding the youth Antinous, and the\r\nhonours paid him by the inhabitants of the city of Antinous in\r\nEgypt), and imagines that the honour paid to him falls little\r\nshort of that which we render to Jesus, let us show in what a\r\nspirit of hostility this statement is made. For what is there in\r\ncommon between a life lived among the favourites of Adrian,\r\nby one who did not abstain even from unnatural lusts, and that\r\nof the venerable Jesus, against whom even they who brought\r\ncountless other charges, and who told so many falsehoods, were\r\nnot able to allege that He manifested, even in the slightest\r\ndegree, any tendency to what was licentious?<a id=\"r358\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f358\"><sup>[358]</sup></a> Nay, further,\r\nif one were to investigate, in a spirit of truth and impartiality,\r\nthe stories relating to Antinous, he would find that it was due\r\nto the magical arts and rites of the Egyptians that there was\r\neven the <i>appearance</i> of his performing anything [marvellous]\r\nin the city which bears his name, and that too only after his\r\ndecease,—an effect which is said to have been produced in other\r\ntemples by the Egyptians, and those who are skilled in the arts\r\nwhich they practise. For they set up in certain places demons\r\nclaiming prophetic or healing power, and which frequently\r\ntorture those who seem to have committed any mistake about\r\nordinary kinds of food, or about touching the dead body of a\r\nman, that they may have the appearance of alarming the uneducated\r\nmultitude. Of this nature is the being that is considered\r\nto be a god in Antinoopolis in Egypt, whose [reputed]\r\nvirtues are the lying inventions of some who live by the gain\r\nderived therefrom;<a id=\"r359\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f359\"><sup>[359]</sup></a> while others, deceived by the demon placed\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_118\">118</span>there, and others again convicted by a weak conscience, actually\r\nthink that they are paying a divine penalty inflicted by Antinous.\r\nOf such a nature also are the mysteries which they\r\nperform, and the seeming predictions which they utter. Far\r\ndifferent from such are those of Jesus. For it was no company\r\nof sorcerers, paying court to a king or ruler at his bidding,\r\nwho seemed to have made him a god; but the Architect of the\r\nuniverse Himself, in keeping with the marvellously persuasive\r\npower of His words,<a id=\"r360\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f360\"><sup>[360]</sup></a> commended Him as worthy of honour,\r\nnot only to those men who were well disposed, but to demons\r\nalso, and other unseen powers, which even at the present time\r\nshow that they either fear the name of Jesus as that of a being of\r\nsuperior power, or reverentially accept Him as their legal ruler.<a id=\"r361\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f361\"><sup>[361]</sup></a>\r\nFor if the commendation had not been given Him by God, the\r\ndemons would not have withdrawn from those whom they had\r\nassailed, in obedience to the mere mention of His name.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXXVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-169"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bad959c136d5ea335e7aff5f9f16ae04e35f1d7e978833f9881dd957333bbdac","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-f359","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":"f359","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f359\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r359\">359</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">οὗ ἀρετὰς οἱ μέν τινες κυβευτικώτερον ζῶντες καταψεύδονται.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f359","text_sha256":"6e9ffafd65e1ba13af8c71b9184eff527b61f5639af0159f55afcfe2ce604055","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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