{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">To the best of our ability, therefore, as in a treatise of this\r\nnature, we have answered the objection, that “if Jesus had\r\nreally wished to manifest his divine power, he ought to have\r\nshown himself to those who ill-treated him, and to the judge\r\nwho condemned him, and to all without reservation.” There\r\nwas, however, no obligation on Him to appear either to the\r\njudge who condemned Him, or to those who ill-treated Him.\r\nFor Jesus spared both the one and the other, that they might\r\nnot be smitten with blindness, as the men of Sodom were when\r\nthey conspired against the beauty of the angels entertained by\r\nLot. And here is the account of the matter: “But the men\r\nput forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them,\r\nand shut to the door. And they smote the men who were at\r\nthe door of the house with blindness, both small and great; so\r\nthat they wearied themselves to find the door.”<a id=\"r196\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f196\"><sup>[196]</sup></a> Jesus, accordingly,\r\nwished to show that His power was divine to each\r\none who was capable of seeing it, and according to the measure\r\nof His capability. And I do not suppose that He guarded\r\nagainst being seen on any other ground than from a regard to\r\nthe fitness of those who were incapable of seeing Him. And\r\nit is in vain for Celsus to add, “For he had no longer occasion\r\nto fear any man after his death, being, as you say, a God; nor\r\nwas he sent into the world at all for the purpose of being hid.”\r\nYet He was sent into the world not only to become known, but\r\nalso to be hid. For all that He was, was not known even to\r\nthose to whom He was known, but a certain part of Him\r\nremained concealed even from them; and to some He was not\r\nknown at all. And He opened the gates of light to those who\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_71\">71</span>were the sons of darkness and of night, and had devoted themselves\r\nto becoming the sons of light and of the day. For our\r\nSaviour Lord, like a good physician, came rather to us who\r\nwere full of sins, than to those who were righteous.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter LXVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-114"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"54c645ba07cc16eba84443b17f01a6c62710242370f5dcfddafb01b66892c0f8","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xix. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f196","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":"f196","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f196\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r196\">196</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Genesis\">Gen.</abbr> <abbr title=\"nineteen\">xix.</abbr> 10, 11.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f196","text_sha256":"bbfed3a10802f0852b5e1fc370163761e3cefddf1c63371961b302fe8a6888ec","verified":false,"work_id":null}