Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The conclusion of all these arguments regarding Jesus is thus\r\nstated by the Jew: “He was therefore a man, and of such a\r\nnature, as the truth itself proves, and reason demonstrates him\r\nto be.” I do not know, however, whether a man who had the\r\ncourage to spread throughout the entire world his doctrine of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_84\">84</span>religious worship and teaching,<a id=\"r247\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f247\"><sup>[247]</sup></a> could accomplish what he\r\nwished without the divine assistance, and could rise superior to\r\nall who withstood the progress of his doctrine—kings and rulers,\r\nand the Roman senate, and governors in all places, and the\r\ncommon people. And how could the nature of a man possessed\r\nof no inherent excellence convert so vast a multitude? For it\r\nwould not be wonderful if it were only the wise who were so converted;\r\nbut it is the most irrational of men, and those devoted\r\nto their passions, and who, by reason of their irrationality,\r\nchange with the greater difficulty so as to adopt a more temperate\r\ncourse of life. And yet it is because Christ was the\r\npower of God and the wisdom of the Father that He accomplished,\r\nand still accomplishes, such results, although neither\r\nthe Jews nor Greeks who disbelieve His word will so admit.\r\nAnd therefore we shall not cease to believe in God, according\r\nto the precepts of Jesus Christ, and to seek to convert those\r\nwho are blind on the subject of religion, although it is they who\r\nare truly blind themselves that charge us with blindness: and\r\nthey, whether Jews or Greeks, who lead astray those that follow\r\nthem, accuse us of seducing men—a good seduction, truly!—that\r\nthey may become temperate instead of dissolute, or at least\r\nmay make advances to temperance; may become just instead of\r\nunjust, or at least may tend to become so; prudent instead of\r\nfoolish, or be on the way to become such; and instead of cowardice,\r\nmeanness, and timidity, may exhibit the virtues of fortitude\r\nand courage, especially displayed in the struggles undergone for\r\nthe sake of their religion towards God, the Creator of all things.\r\nJesus Christ therefore came announced beforehand, not by\r\none prophet, but by all; and it was a proof of the ignorance of\r\nCelsus, to represent a Jew as saying that one prophet only had\r\npredicted the advent of Christ. But as this Jew of Celsus,\r\nafter being thus introduced, asserting that these things were\r\nindeed in conformity with his own law, has somewhere here\r\nended his discourse, with a mention of other matters not worthy\r\nof remembrance, I too shall here terminate this second book of\r\nmy answer to his treatise. But if God permit, and the power\r\nof Christ abide in my soul, I shall endeavour in the third book\r\nto deal with the subsequent statements of Celsus.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-131"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0df8a2913df3ffe4b626b9301c9b3fb9794eb9e6bc3d16e5adcc05f6a53aa0cd","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-f247","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":"f247","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f247\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r247\">247</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὴν κατ’ αὐτὸν θεοσέβειαν καὶ διδασκαλίαν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f247","text_sha256":"33bc8c972c2782370908fa41958fae38254eb1ce594bf12e77886f860a7b95be","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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