{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">The remark, indeed, was true which Celsus made, that any\r\none, on hearing his words, would answer, seeing that his words\r\n<i>are</i> words of darkness, “You pour darkness before my eyes.”\r\nCelsus verily, and those like him, do desire to pour darkness\r\nbefore our eyes: we, however, by means of the light of the\r\nWord, disperse the darkness of their impious opinions. The\r\nChristian, indeed, could retort on Celsus, who says nothing\r\nthat is distinct or true, “I see nothing that is distinct among\r\nall <i>your</i> statements.” It is not, therefore, “out of darkness”\r\ninto “the brightness of light” that Celsus leads us forth: he\r\nwishes, on the contrary, to transport us from light into darkness,\r\nmaking the darkness light and the light darkness, and exposing\r\nhimself to the woe well described by the prophet Isaiah in the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_410\">410</span>following manner: “Woe unto them that put darkness for light,\r\nand light for darkness.”<a id=\"r1371\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1371\"><sup>[1371]</sup></a> But we, the eyes of whose soul have\r\nbeen opened by the Word, and who see the difference between\r\nlight and darkness, prefer by all means to take our stand “in\r\nthe light,” and will have nothing to do with darkness at all.\r\nThe true light, moreover, being endued with life, knows to\r\nwhom his full splendours are to be manifested, and to whom\r\nhis light; for he does not display his brilliancy on account of\r\nthe still existing weakness in the eyes of the recipient. And\r\nif we must speak at all of “sight being affected and injured,”\r\nwhat other eyes shall we say are in this condition, than his who\r\nis involved in ignorance of God, and who is prevented by his\r\npassions from seeing the truth? Christians, however, by no\r\nmeans consider that they are blinded by the words of Celsus,\r\nor any other who is opposed to the worship of God. But let\r\nthose who perceive that they are blinded by following multitudes\r\nwho are in error, and tribes of those who keep festivals\r\nto demons, draw near to the Word, who can bestow the gift of\r\nsight,<a id=\"r1372\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1372\"><sup>[1372]</sup></a> in order that, like those poor and blind who had thrown\r\nthemselves down by the wayside, and who were healed by Jesus\r\nbecause they said to Him, “Son of David, have mercy upon\r\nme,” they too may receive mercy and recover their eyesight,<a id=\"r1373\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1373\"><sup>[1373]</sup></a>\r\nfresh and beautiful, as the Word of God can create it.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VI.","Chapter LXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-462"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8768c4272733074b2649537fc601aaca797cbca39226c2b3944f417f88607649","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. v. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1371","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":"f1371","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1371\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1371\">1371</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1371","text_sha256":"b0d82197402af49d6cbbc4d1ffb9062d22bdcc64f516214bd6a243cf23799fe2","verified":false,"work_id":null}