{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But how is it that this Jew of Celsus could say that Jesus\r\nconcealed Himself? For his words regarding Him are these:\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_74\">74</span>“And who that is sent as a messenger ever conceals himself\r\nwhen he ought to make known his message?” Now, He did\r\nnot conceal Himself, who said to those who sought to apprehend\r\nHim, “I was daily teaching openly in the temple, and ye\r\nlaid no hold upon me.” But having once already answered this\r\ncharge of Celsus, now again repeated, we shall content ourselves\r\nwith what we have formerly said. We have answered, also, in\r\nthe preceding pages, this objection, that “while he was in the\r\nbody, and no one believed upon him, he preached to all without\r\nintermission; but when he might have produced a powerful\r\nbelief in himself after rising from the dead, he showed himself\r\nsecretly only to one woman, and to his own boon companions.”<a id=\"r207\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f207\"><sup>[207]</sup></a>\r\nNow it is not true that He showed Himself only to one woman;\r\nfor it is stated in the Gospel according to Matthew, that “in the\r\nend of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day\r\nof the week, came Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, to\r\nsee the sepulchre. And, behold, there had been a great earthquake:\r\nfor the angel of the Lord had descended from heaven,\r\nand come and rolled back the stone.”<a id=\"r208\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f208\"><sup>[208]</sup></a> And, shortly after,\r\nMatthew adds: “And, behold, Jesus met <i>them</i>”—clearly meaning\r\nthe afore-mentioned Marys—“saying, All hail. And they\r\ncame and held Him by the feet, and worshipped Him.”<a id=\"r209\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f209\"><sup>[209]</sup></a> And\r\nwe answered, too, the charge, that “while undergoing his\r\npunishment he was seen by all, but after his resurrection only\r\nby one,” when we offered our defence of the fact that “He was\r\nnot seen by all.” And now we might say that His merely\r\nhuman attributes were visible to all men, but those which were\r\ndivine in their nature—I speak of the attributes not as related,\r\nbut as distinct<a id=\"r210\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f210\"><sup>[210]</sup></a>—were not capable of being received by all.\r\nBut observe here the manifest contradiction into which Celsus\r\nfalls. For having said, a little before, that Jesus had appeared\r\nsecretly to one woman and His own boon companions, he\r\nimmediately subjoins: “While undergoing his punishment he\r\nwas seen by all men, but after his resurrection by one, whereas\r\nthe opposite ought to have happened.” And let us hear what\r\nhe means by “ought to have happened.” The being seen by\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_75\">75</span>all men while undergoing His punishment, but after His\r\nresurrection only by one individual, are opposites.<a id=\"r211\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f211\"><sup>[211]</sup></a> Now,\r\nso far as his language conveys a meaning, he would have that\r\nto take place which is both impossible and absurd, viz., that\r\nwhile undergoing His punishment He should be seen only\r\nby one individual, but after His resurrection by all men! or\r\nelse how will you explain his words, “The opposite ought to\r\nhave happened?”</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-117"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cbeb69f58733e857f78b439c348df8a89811cc7592d95c3d2561c3013ce46b13","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. 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