Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, Celsus, after heaping together, simply as\r\nmere assertions, the varying opinions of some of the ancients\r\nregarding the world, and the origin of man, alleges that “Moses\r\nand the prophets, who have left to us our books, not knowing\r\nat all what the nature of the world is, and of man, have woven\r\ntogether a web of sheer nonsense.”<a id=\"r1278\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1278\"><sup>[1278]</sup></a> If he had shown, now,\r\n<i>how</i> it appeared to him that the Holy Scriptures contained\r\n“sheer nonsense,” we should have tried to demolish the arguments\r\nwhich appeared to him to establish their nonsensical\r\ncharacter; but on the present occasion, following his own example,\r\nwe also sportively give it as our opinion that Celsus,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_392\">392</span>knowing nothing at all about the nature of the meaning and\r\nlanguage of the prophets,<a id=\"r1279\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1279\"><sup>[1279]</sup></a> composed a work which contained\r\n“sheer nonsense,” and boastfully gave it the title of a “true\r\ndiscourse.” And since he makes the statements about the “days\r\nof creation” ground of accusation,—as if he understood them\r\nclearly and correctly, some of which elapsed <i>before</i> the creation\r\nof light and heaven, and sun, and moon, and stars, and some\r\nof them <i>after</i> the creation of these,—we shall only make this\r\nobservation, that Moses must then have forgotten that he had\r\nsaid a little before, “that in six days the creation of the world\r\nhad been finished,” and that in consequence of this act of forgetfulness\r\nhe subjoins to these words the following: “This is\r\nthe book of the creation of man, in the day when God made\r\nthe heaven and the earth!” But it is not in the least credible,\r\nthat after what he had said respecting the six days, Moses\r\nshould immediately add, without a special meaning, the words,\r\n“in the day that God made the heavens and the earth;” and\r\nif any one thinks that these words may be referred to the statement,\r\n“In the beginning, God made the heaven and the earth,”\r\nlet him observe that before the words, “Let there be light, and\r\nthere was light,” and these, “God called the light day,” it has\r\nbeen stated that “in the beginning God made the heaven and\r\nthe earth.”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter L."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-445"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d944e5e75dad129ef1a03c023d1b4ced4a07e6e419994d100da6a951b3fbe6c2","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-f1278","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":"f1278","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1278\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1278\">1278</a>.  </span><span lang=\"grc\">συνθεῖναι λῆρον βαθύν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1278","text_sha256":"8b6b56b57491666b35905d7b4816189d8c007591cea04be8737c39f42634c6ef","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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