{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, moreover, sneers at the “hatred” of Esau (to which,\r\nI suppose, he refers) against Jacob, although he was a man\r\nwho, according to the Scriptures, is acknowledged to have been\r\nwicked; and not clearly stating the story of Simeon and Levi,\r\nwho sallied out [on the Shechemites] on account of the insult\r\noffered to their sister, who had been violated by the son of the\r\nShechemite king, he inveighs against their conduct. And passing\r\non, he speaks of “brothers selling [one another],” alluding\r\nto the sons of Jacob; and of “a brother sold,” Joseph to wit;\r\nand of “a father deceived,” viz. Jacob, because he entertained\r\nno suspicion of his sons when they showed him Joseph’s coat\r\nof many colours, but believed their statement, and mourned for\r\nhis son, who was a slave in Egypt, as if he were dead. And\r\nobserve in what a spirit of hatred and falsehood Celsus collects\r\ntogether the statements of the sacred history; so that wherever\r\nit appeared to him to contain a ground of accusation he produces\r\nthe passage, but wherever there is any exhibition of\r\nvirtue worthy of mention—as when Joseph would not gratify\r\nthe lust of his mistress, refusing alike her allurements and her\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_213\">213</span>threats—he does not even mention the circumstance! He\r\nshould see, indeed, that the conduct of Joseph was far superior\r\nto what is related of Bellerophon,<a id=\"r686\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f686\"><sup>[686]</sup></a> since the former chose\r\nrather to be shut up in prison than do violence to his virtue.\r\nFor although he might have offered a just defence against\r\nhis accuser, he magnanimously remained silent, entrusting his\r\ncause to God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XLVI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-267"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c6ee5fce7e42ce958a4fef4e596723f32698296585dc54537d3d60f8d4fec76d","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-f686","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":"f686","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f686\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r686\">686</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> Homer, <i>Iliad</i>, <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> 160.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f686","text_sha256":"9c4920a0058760ae15821df15c340cb0cc0a8e09b1ca99425c677df6801434db","verified":false,"work_id":null}