{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He next proceeds to make the following statement about the\r\nJews:—“The first point relating to the Jews which is fitted\r\nto excite wonder, is that they should worship the heaven and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_273\">273</span>the angels who dwell therein, and yet pass by and neglect its\r\nmost venerable and powerful parts, as the sun, and moon, and\r\nthe other heavenly bodies, both fixed stars and planets, as if it\r\nwere possible that ‘the whole’ could be God, and yet its\r\nparts not divine; or [as if it were reasonable] to treat with the\r\ngreatest respect those who are said to appear to such as are\r\nin darkness somewhere, blinded by some crooked sorcery, or\r\ndreaming dreams through the influence of shadowy spectres,<a id=\"r853\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f853\"><sup>[853]</sup></a>\r\nwhile those who prophesy so clearly and strikingly to all men,\r\nby means of whom rain, and heat, and clouds, and thunder\r\n(to which they offer worship), and lightnings, and fruits,\r\nand all kinds of productiveness, are brought about,—by means\r\nof whom God is revealed to them,—the most prominent\r\nheralds among those beings that are above,—those that are\r\ntruly heavenly angels,—are to be regarded as of no account!”\r\nIn making these statements, Celsus appears to have fallen into\r\nconfusion, and to have penned them from false ideas of things\r\nwhich he did not understand; for it is patent to all who investigate\r\nthe practices of the Jews, and compare them with those\r\nof the Christians, that the Jews who follow the law, which,\r\nspeaking in the person of God, says, “Thou shalt have no\r\nother gods before me: thou shalt not make unto thee an\r\nimage, nor a likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or\r\nthat is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the\r\nearth; thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them,”<a id=\"r854\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f854\"><sup>[854]</sup></a>\r\nworship nothing else than the Supreme God, who made the\r\nheavens, and all things besides. Now it is evident that those\r\nwho live according to the law, and worship the <i>Maker</i> of\r\nheaven, will not worship the heaven at the same time with\r\nGod. Moreover, no one who obeys the law of Moses will bow\r\ndown to the angels who are in heaven; and, in like manner,\r\nas they do not bow down to sun, moon, and stars, the host of\r\nheaven, they refrain also from doing obeisance to heaven and\r\nits angels, obeying the law which declares: “Lest thou lift up\r\nthine eyes to heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the\r\nmoon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldst be\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_274\">274</span>driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy\r\nGod hath divided unto all nations.”<a id=\"r855\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f855\"><sup>[855]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter VI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-333"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5cd8314db83a3a4c4b6623e96279464e2f18a1c44f6cb5d2e258d1745964fcce","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-f853","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":"f853","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f853\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r853\">853</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἢ τοὺς μὲν ἐν σκότῳ ποῦ ἐκ γοητείας οὐκ ὀρθῆς τυφλώττουσιν, ἢ δι’ ἀμυδρῶν\r\nφασμάτων ὀνειρώττουσιν ἐγχρίμπτειν λεγομένους, εὖ μάλα θρησκεύειν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f853","text_sha256":"502f8af8fb56bea5727efbcdf5cea13118de5aa67d191caa23c9d54d5a10f008","verified":false,"work_id":null}