{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, that he may have the appearance of\r\nknowing still more than he has yet mentioned, he says, agreeably\r\nto his usual custom, that “there are others who have\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_333\">333</span>wickedly invented some being as their teacher and demon,\r\nand who wallow about in a great darkness, more unholy and\r\naccursed than that of the companions of the Egyptian Antinous.”\r\nAnd he seems to me, indeed, in touching on these\r\nmatters, to say with a certain degree of truth, that there are\r\ncertain others who have wickedly invented another demon, and\r\nwho have found him to be their lord, as they wallow about in the\r\ngreat darkness of their ignorance. With respect, however, to\r\nAntinous, who is compared with our Jesus, we shall not repeat\r\nwhat we have already said in the preceding pages. “Moreover,”\r\nhe continues, “these persons utter against one another\r\ndreadful blasphemies, saying all manner of things shameful\r\nto be spoken; nor will they yield in the slightest point for the\r\nsake of harmony, hating each other with a perfect hatred.”\r\nNow, in answer to this, we have already said that in philosophy\r\nand medicine sects are to be found warring against sects. We,\r\nhowever, who are followers of the word of Jesus, and have\r\nexercised ourselves in thinking, and saying, and doing what is\r\nin harmony with His words, “when reviled, bless; being persecuted,\r\nwe suffer it; being defamed, we entreat;”<a id=\"r1026\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1026\"><sup>[1026]</sup></a> and we would\r\n<i>not</i> utter “all manner of things shameful to be spoken” against\r\nthose who have adopted different opinions from ours, but, if\r\npossible, use every exertion to raise them to a better condition\r\nthrough adherence to the Creator alone, and lead them to\r\nperform every act as those who will [one day] be judged. And\r\nif those who hold different opinions will not be convinced, we\r\nobserve the injunction laid down for the treatment of such:\r\n“A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition,\r\nreject, knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth,\r\nbeing condemned of himself.”<a id=\"r1027\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1027\"><sup>[1027]</sup></a> Moreover, we who know\r\nthe maxim, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” and this also,\r\n“Blessed are the meek,” would not regard with hatred the\r\ncorrupters of Christianity, nor term those who had fallen into\r\nerror Circes and flattering deceivers.<a id=\"r1028\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1028\"><sup>[1028]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK V.","Chapter LXIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-391"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"47566b6aa0252d18d5540995f817482caab92c5e65ae90f0096dda03bac30c68","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-f1028","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":"f1028","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1028\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1028\">1028</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">Κίρκας καὶ κύκηθρα αἱμύλα.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1028","text_sha256":"7056ad98eb123a2b15137e1a392b33cbf342679deaa28d705b2c19b80ec407cf","verified":false,"work_id":null}