{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">For if we were at liberty to speak in this scoffing way of\r\nthe Scriptures in use in the churches, we should rather compare\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_383\">383</span>this story of the two harlots to the play of Philistion than\r\nthat of the chaste Susanna. And just as the people would\r\nnot have been persuaded if Solomon had merely said, “Give\r\nthis one the living child, for she is the mother of it;” so\r\nDaniel’s attack on the elders would not have been sufficient\r\nhad there not been added the condemnation from their own\r\nmouth, when both said that they had seen her lying with the\r\nyoung man under a tree, but did not agree as to what kind\r\nof tree it was. And since you have asserted, as if you knew\r\nfor certain, that Daniel in this matter judged by inspiration\r\n(which may or may not have been the case), I would have\r\nyou notice that there seem to me to be some analogies in the\r\nstory of Daniel to the judgment of Solomon, concerning whom\r\nthe Scripture testifies that the people saw that the wisdom of\r\nGod was in him to do judgment.<a id=\"r1105\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1105\"><sup>[1105]</sup></a> This might be said also of\r\nDaniel, for it was because wisdom was in him to do judgment\r\nthat the elders were judged in the manner described.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","LETTERS.","A LETTER FROM ORIGEN TO AFRICANUS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-377"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b5ec031c64ff8e9dda24ed0e26cd149a7f22330b632de1bfda30abe439ef9748","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1105","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1105","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1105\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1105\">1105</a>. </span>1 Kings <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 28.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1105","text_sha256":"4b799fdd6d8a3d7bed69c1cd1c125635713fb2158a0da5c1e423d083f2eee874","verified":false,"work_id":null}