Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">For with what purpose in view did Providence accomplish\r\nthe marvels related of Aristeas? And to confer what benefit\r\nupon the human race did such remarkable events, as you regard\r\nthem, take place? You cannot answer. But we, when\r\nwe relate the events of the history of Jesus, have no ordinary\r\ndefence to offer for their occurrence;—this, viz., that God\r\ndesired to commend the doctrine of Jesus as a doctrine which\r\nwas to save mankind, and which was based, indeed, upon the\r\napostles as foundations of the rising<a id=\"r325\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f325\"><sup>[325]</sup></a> edifice of Christianity,\r\nbut which increased in magnitude also in the succeeding ages,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_109\">109</span>in which not a few cures are wrought in the name of Jesus,\r\nand certain other manifestations of no small moment have\r\ntaken place. Now what sort of person is Apollo, who enjoined\r\nthe Metapontines to treat Aristeas as a god? And with what\r\nobject does he do this? And what advantage was he procuring\r\nto the Metapontines from this divine worship, if they\r\nwere to regard him as a god, who a little ago was a mortal?\r\nAnd yet the recommendations of Apollo (viewed by us as a\r\ndemon who has obtained the honour of libation and sacrificial\r\nodours<a id=\"r326\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f326\"><sup>[326]</sup></a>) regarding this Aristeas appear to you to be worthy of\r\nconsideration; while those of the God of all things, and of His\r\nholy angels, made known beforehand through the prophets—not\r\n<i>after</i> the birth of Jesus, but <i>before</i> He appeared among\r\nmen—do not stir you up to admiration, not merely of the\r\nprophets who received the Divine Spirit, but of Him also who\r\nwas the object of their predictions, whose entrance into life was\r\nso clearly predicted many years beforehand by numerous prophets,\r\nthat the whole Jewish people who were hanging in expectation\r\nof the coming of Him who was looked for, did, after\r\nthe advent of Jesus, fall into a keen dispute with each other;\r\nand that a great multitude of them acknowledged Christ, and\r\nbelieved Him to be the object of prophecy, while others did\r\nnot believe in Him, but, despising the meekness of those who,\r\non account of the teaching of Jesus, were unwilling to cause\r\neven the most trifling sedition, dared to inflict on Jesus those\r\ncruelties which His disciples have so truthfully and candidly\r\nrecorded, without secretly omitting from their marvellous history\r\nof Him what seems to the multitude to bring disgrace\r\nupon the doctrine of Christianity. But both Jesus Himself\r\nand His disciples desired that His followers should believe not\r\nmerely in His Godhead and miracles, as if He had not also\r\nbeen a partaker of human nature, and had assumed the human\r\nflesh which “lusteth against the Spirit;”<a id=\"r327\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f327\"><sup>[327]</sup></a> but they saw also\r\nthat the power which had descended into human nature, and\r\ninto the midst of human miseries, and which had assumed a\r\nhuman soul and body, contributed through faith, along with\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_110\">110</span>its divine elements, to the salvation of believers,<a id=\"r328\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f328\"><sup>[328]</sup></a> when they see\r\nthat from Him there began the union of the divine with the\r\nhuman nature, in order that the human, by communion with\r\nthe divine, might rise to be divine, not in Jesus alone, but in\r\nall those who not only believe, but<a id=\"r329\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f329\"><sup>[329]</sup></a> enter upon the life which\r\nJesus taught, and which elevates to friendship with God and\r\ncommunion with Him every one who lives according to the\r\nprecepts of Jesus.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-161"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d7a64e4450d62fbbe4d8c25c9ae7f32222a481ea93a06bb232e9879a5b683e16","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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