{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Moreover, let them show where there is to be found even\r\nthe appearance of language dictated by arrogance,<a id=\"r53\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f53\"><sup>[53]</sup></a> and proceeding\r\nfrom Jesus. For how could an arrogant man thus\r\nexpress himself, “Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of\r\nheart, and you shall find rest for your souls?”<a id=\"r54\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f54\"><sup>[54]</sup></a> or how can\r\nHe be styled arrogant, who after supper laid aside His garments\r\nin the presence of His disciples, and, after girding Himself\r\nwith a towel, and pouring water into a basin, proceeded to wash\r\nthe feet of each disciple, and rebuked him who was unwilling\r\nto allow them to be washed, with the words, “Except I wash\r\nthee, thou hast no part with me?”<a id=\"r55\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f55\"><sup>[55]</sup></a> Or how could He be\r\ncalled such who said, “I was amongst you, not as he that\r\nsitteth at meat, but as he that serveth?”<a id=\"r56\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f56\"><sup>[56]</sup></a> And let any one\r\nshow what were the falsehoods which He uttered, and let him\r\npoint out what are great and what are small falsehoods, that he\r\nmay prove Jesus to have been guilty of the former. And there\r\nis yet another way in which we may confute him. For as one\r\nfalsehood is not less or more false than another, so one truth\r\nis not less or more true than another. And what charges of\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_9\">9</span>impiety he has to bring against Jesus, let the Jew of Celsus\r\nespecially bring forward. Was it impious to abstain from corporeal\r\ncircumcision, and from a literal Sabbath, and literal\r\nfestivals, and literal new moons, and from clean and unclean\r\nmeats, and to turn the mind to the good and true and spiritual\r\nlaw of God, while at the same time he who was an ambassador\r\nfor Christ knew how to become to the Jews as a Jew, that he\r\nmight gain the Jews, and to those who are under the law, as\r\nunder the law, that he might gain those who are under the law?</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK II.","Chapter VII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-46"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c3fe3531630ffe883f930f199632675b62b9ac90e81a32d93db99b9e47eacaa6","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":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xi. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f54","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":"f54","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f54\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r54\">54</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"eleven\">xi.</abbr> 29.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f54","text_sha256":"705c9688310f75895c7af61e8e7bfb89ed38336fc01eeded23c633f67213eee8","verified":false,"work_id":null}