{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Celsus, then, as if not observing that he was saying anything\r\ninconsistent with the words he had just used, “if all were\r\nto do the same as you,” adds: “You surely do not say that\r\nif the Romans were, in compliance with your wish, to neglect\r\ntheir customary duties to gods and men, and were to worship\r\nthe Most High, or whatever you please to call him, that he\r\nwill come down and fight for them, so that they shall need no\r\nother help than his. For this same God, as yourselves say,\r\npromised of old this and much more to those who served him,\r\nand see in what way he has helped them and you! They, in\r\nplace of being masters of the whole world, are left with not so\r\nmuch as a patch of ground or a home; and as for you, if any of\r\nyou transgresses even in secret, he is sought out and punished\r\nwith death.” As the question started is, “What would happen\r\nif the Romans were persuaded to adopt the principles of the\r\nChristians, to despise the duties paid to the recognised gods and\r\nto men, and to worship the Most High?” this is my answer to\r\nthe question. We say that “if two” of us “shall agree on earth\r\nas touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_553\">553</span>them of the Father” of the just, “which is in heaven;”<a id=\"r1675\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1675\"><sup>[1675]</sup></a> for\r\nGod rejoices in the agreement of rational beings, and turns\r\naway from discord. And what are we to expect, if not only a\r\nvery few agree, as at present, but the whole of the empire of\r\nRome? For they will pray to the Word, who of old said to\r\nthe Hebrews, when they were pursued by the Egyptians, “The\r\nLord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace;”<a id=\"r1676\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1676\"><sup>[1676]</sup></a> and\r\nif they all unite in prayer with one accord, they will be able to\r\nput to flight far more enemies than those who were discomfited\r\nby the prayer of Moses when he cried to the Lord, and of those\r\nwho prayed with him. Now, if what God promised to those\r\nwho keep His law has not come to pass, the reason of its non-fulfilment\r\nis not to be ascribed to the unfaithfulness of God.\r\nBut He had made the fulfilment of His promises to depend on\r\ncertain conditions,—namely, that they should observe and live\r\naccording to His law; and if the Jews have not a plot of\r\nground nor a habitation left to them, although they had received\r\nthese conditional promises, the entire blame is to be laid upon\r\ntheir crimes, and especially upon their guilt in the treatment of\r\nJesus.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VIII.","Chapter LXIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-619"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bdb0485ab0a97f0279e9a89dfa661966328b0f5ea3a6f339f02b67ddbe846134","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":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xviii. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1675","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":"f1675","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1675\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1675\">1675</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"eighteen\">xviii.</abbr> 19.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1675","text_sha256":"c70d7789bbfd6dc3f6252b4e58a709e5ce4a7ea2a9cbbfc5a9a7bdf819486c7c","verified":false,"work_id":null}