Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">“But that certain Christians and [all] Jews should maintain,\r\nthe former that there <i>has</i> already descended, the latter\r\nthat there <i>will</i> descend, upon the earth a certain God, or\r\nSon of a God, who will make the inhabitants of the earth\r\nrighteous,<a id=\"r480\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f480\"><sup>[480]</sup></a> is a most shameless assertion, and one the refutation\r\nof which does not need many words.” Now here he\r\nappears to pronounce correctly regarding not “certain” of the\r\nJews, but <i>all</i> of them, that they imagine that there is a certain\r\n[God] who will descend upon the earth; and with regard to\r\nChristians, that <i>certain of them</i> say that he has already come\r\ndown. For he means those who prove from the Jewish Scriptures\r\nthat the advent of Christ has already taken place, and\r\nhe seems to know that there are certain heretical sects which\r\ndeny that Christ Jesus was predicted by the prophets. In the\r\npreceding pages, however, we have already discussed, to the\r\nbest of our ability, the question of Christ having been the subject\r\nof prophecy, and therefore, to avoid tautology, we do not\r\nrepeat much that might be advanced upon this head. Observe,\r\nnow, that if he had wished with a kind of apparent force<a id=\"r481\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f481\"><sup>[481]</sup></a> to\r\nsubvert faith in the prophetic writings, either with regard to\r\nthe future or past advent of Christ, he ought to have set forth\r\nthe prophecies themselves which we Christians and Jews quote\r\nin our discussions with each other. For in this way he would\r\nhave appeared to turn aside those who are carried away by the\r\nplausible character<a id=\"r482\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f482\"><sup>[482]</sup></a> of the prophetic statements, as he regards\r\nit, from assenting to their truth, and from believing, on account\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_163\">163</span>of these prophecies, that Jesus is the Christ; whereas now,\r\nbeing unable to answer the prophecies relating to Christ, or else\r\nnot knowing at all what are the prophecies relating to Him,\r\nhe brings forward no prophetic declaration, although there are\r\ncountless numbers which refer to Christ; but he thinks that he\r\nprefers an accusation against the prophetic Scriptures, while he\r\ndoes not even state what he himself would call their “plausible\r\ncharacter!” He is not, however, aware that it is not at all the\r\nJews who say that Christ will descend as a God, or the Son of\r\na God, as we have shown in the foregoing pages. And when\r\nhe asserts that “he is said by us to have already come, but by\r\nthe Jews that his advent as Messiah<a id=\"r483\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f483\"><sup>[483]</sup></a> is still future,” he appears\r\nby the very charge to censure our statement as one that is most\r\nshameless, and which needs no lengthened refutation.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter II."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-221"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3e480fb08ee293efddbf0e6ebcc3344dd3d4f50404f96c3caf834f23634e096b","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-f480","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":"f480","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f480\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r480\">480</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">δικαιωτὴς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f480","text_sha256":"3398d7cce151777ba4ca0b0efcfd42048fa08152cd92b2f2cb7d10445bf8130f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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