{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">But I should like, in answer to him who for some unknown\r\nreason advances such statements as the above, to make in a\r\nconversational way<a id=\"r356\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f356\"><sup>[356]</sup></a> some such remarks as the following, which\r\nseem not inappropriate to him. Are then those persons whom\r\nyou have mentioned nonentities, and is there no power in\r\nLebadea connected with Trophonius, nor in Thebes with the\r\ntemple of Amphiaraus, nor in Acarnania with Amphilochus,\r\nnor in Cilicia with Mopsus? Or is there in such persons some\r\nbeing, either a demon, or a hero, or even a god, working works\r\nwhich are beyond the reach of man? For if he answer that\r\nthere is nothing either demoniacal or divine about these individuals\r\nmore than others, then let him at once make known his\r\nown opinion, as being that of an Epicurean, and of one who\r\ndoes not hold the same views with the Greeks, and who neither\r\nrecognises demons nor worships gods as do the Greeks; and\r\nlet it be shown that it was to no purpose that he adduced the\r\ninstances previously enumerated (as if he believed them to be\r\ntrue), together with those which he adds in the following pages.\r\nBut if he will assert that the persons spoken of are either\r\ndemons, or heroes, or even gods, let him notice that he will\r\nestablish by what he has admitted a result which he does not\r\ndesire, viz. that Jesus also was some such being; for which\r\nreason, too, he was able to demonstrate to not a few that He\r\nhad come down from God to visit the human race. And if he\r\nonce admit this, see whether he will not be forced to confess\r\nthat He is mightier than those individuals with whom he classed\r\nHim, seeing none of the latter forbids the offering of honour\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_117\">117</span>to the others; while He, having confidence in Himself, because\r\nHe is more powerful than all those others, forbids them to\r\nbe received as divine<a id=\"r357\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f357\"><sup>[357]</sup></a> because they are wicked demons, who\r\nhave taken possession of places on earth, through inability to\r\nrise to the purer and diviner region, whither the grossnesses of\r\nearth and its countless evils cannot reach.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XXXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-168"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b94367b4bb6a70a3cea1bb0162ac3280ee2489aac0224bde1aadc58738b28cf5","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-f357","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":"f357","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f357\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r357\">357</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὰς τουτῶν ἀποδοχὰς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f357","text_sha256":"7e960f0c339f4e4601da830384c54f32718cbf9fef0173ca45f60ca2ad7cc9e8","verified":false,"work_id":null}