Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, speaking as in the person of a teacher\r\nof our doctrine, he expresses himself as follows: “Wise men\r\nreject what we say, being led into error, and ensnared by their\r\nwisdom.” In reply to which we say that, since wisdom is the\r\nknowledge of divine and human things and of their causes, or,\r\nas it is defined by the word of God, “the breath of the power\r\nof God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the\r\nAlmighty, and the brightness of the everlasting light, and the\r\nunspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His\r\ngoodness,”<a id=\"r453\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f453\"><sup>[453]</sup></a> no one who was really wise would reject what is said\r\nby a Christian acquainted with the principles of Christianity,\r\nor would be led into error, or ensnared by it. For true wisdom\r\ndoes not mislead, but ignorance does, while of existing things\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_151\">151</span>knowledge alone is permanent, and the truth which is derived\r\nfrom wisdom. But if, contrary to the definition of wisdom,\r\nyou call any one whatever who dogmatizes with sophistical\r\nopinions wise, we answer that in conformity with what <i>you</i>\r\ncall wisdom, such an one rejects the words of God, being\r\nmisled and ensnared by plausible sophisms. And since,\r\naccording to our doctrine, wisdom is not the knowledge of\r\nevil, but the knowledge of evil, so to speak, is in those\r\nwho hold false opinions and who are deceived by them, I\r\nwould therefore in such persons term it ignorance rather than\r\nwisdom.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXXII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-210"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"eccccce3efb7083bbe578a73f552e084cb1ecb2156250b30fbdca427ffa38a91","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-f453","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":"f453","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f453\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r453\">453</a>.  </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Wisdom of Solomon\">Wisd. of Solom.</abbr> <abbr title=\"seven\">vii.</abbr> 25, 26.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f453","text_sha256":"567921a21a1d674a7d7adc755098391d76deceae4180ab3d67433ed54e3c523b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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