{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But as Celsus next mentions the case of the Clazomenian,\r\nsubjoining to the story about him this remark, “Do they not\r\nreport that his soul frequently quitted his body, and flitted\r\nabout in an incorporeal form? and yet men did not regard him\r\nas a god,” we have to answer that probably certain wicked\r\ndemons contrived that such statements should be committed to\r\nwriting (for I do not believe that they contrived that such a\r\nthing should actually <i>take place</i>), in order that the predictions\r\nregarding Jesus, and the discourses uttered by Him, might\r\neither be evil spoken of, as inventions like these, or might\r\nexcite no surprise, as not being more remarkable than other\r\noccurrences. But my Jesus said regarding His own soul (which\r\nwas separated from the body, not by virtue of any human\r\nnecessity, but by the miraculous power which was given Him\r\nalso for this purpose): “No one taketh my life from me, but\r\nI lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I\r\nhave power to take it again.”<a id=\"r345\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f345\"><sup>[345]</sup></a> For as He had power to lay it\r\ndown, He laid it down when He said, “Father, why hast Thou\r\nforsaken me? And when He had cried with a loud voice, He\r\ngave up the ghost,”<a id=\"r346\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f346\"><sup>[346]</sup></a> anticipating the public executioners of the\r\ncrucified, who break the legs of the victims, and who do so in\r\norder that their punishment may not be further prolonged.\r\nAnd He “took His life,” when He manifested Himself to His\r\ndisciples, having in their presence foretold to the unbelieving\r\nJews, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it\r\nup again,”<a id=\"r347\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f347\"><sup>[347]</sup></a> and “He spake this of the temple of His body;” the\r\nprophets, moreover, having predicted such a result in many\r\nother passages of their writings, and in this, “My flesh also\r\nshall rest in hope: for Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,\r\nneither wilt Thou suffer thine holy One to see corruption.”<a id=\"r348\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f348\"><sup>[348]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXXII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-165"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9a06236b8e305794211902c271ce59ad3be3b44a468031d4ba3061df9edeb330","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":27,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxvii. 46-50","verse":46,"verse_end":50}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f346","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":"f346","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f346\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r346\">346</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-seven\">xxvii.</abbr> 46-50.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f346","text_sha256":"1b12c95d7014c423fe5199aeb6b581ca055a234dded0e349c43f5d1468112b08","verified":false,"work_id":null}