{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">For the word is used by our Paul in writing to the Corinthians,\r\nwho were Greeks, and not yet purified in their morals:\r\n“I have fed you with milk, not with meat; for hitherto ye\r\nwere not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able, for ye\r\nare yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying and\r\nstrife, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?” Now the same\r\nwriter, knowing that there was a certain kind of nourishment\r\nbetter adapted for the soul, and that the food of those young<a id=\"r400\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f400\"><sup>[400]</sup></a>\r\npersons who were admitted was compared to milk, continues:\r\n“And ye are become such as have need of milk, and not of\r\nstrong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_134\">134</span>word of righteousness; for he is a babe. But strong meat\r\nbelongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by\r\nreason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good\r\nand evil.”<a id=\"r401\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f401\"><sup>[401]</sup></a> Would then those who believe these words to be\r\nwell spoken, suppose that the noble doctrines of our faith would\r\nnever be mentioned in an assembly of wise men, but that\r\nwherever [our instructors] see young men, and a mob of slaves,\r\nand a collection of foolish individuals, they bring publicly\r\nforward divine and venerable truths, and before such persons\r\nmake a display of themselves in treating of them? But it\r\nis clear to him who examines the whole spirit of our writings,\r\nthat Celsus is animated with a hatred against the human race\r\nresembling that of the ignorant populace, and gives utterance\r\nto these falsehoods without examination.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-189"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b957011850433355c7b8228b6f7e7500debd9685beca5cfcd54c9209816c033f","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. v. 12-14","verse":12,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f401","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":"f401","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f401\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r401\">401</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Hebrews\">Heb.</abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 12-14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f401","text_sha256":"27d51a870570016ba1f4dd44a41a00c9e0279fef7a85504a3822df1177c98d3c","verified":false,"work_id":null}