{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the six former books we have endeavoured, reverend\r\nbrother Ambrosius, according to our ability to meet\r\nthe charges brought by Celsus against the Christians,\r\nand have as far as possible passed over nothing\r\nwithout first subjecting it to a full and close examination.\r\nAnd now, while we enter upon the seventh book, we call upon\r\nGod through Jesus Christ, whom Celsus accuses, that He who\r\nis the truth of God would shed light into our hearts and scatter\r\nthe darkness of error, in accordance with that saying of the\r\nprophet which we now offer as our prayer, “Destroy them by\r\nThy truth.”<a id=\"r1422\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1422\"><sup>[1422]</sup></a> For it is evidently the words and reasonings\r\nopposed to the truth that God destroys by His truth; so that\r\nwhen these are destroyed, all who are delivered from deception\r\nmay go on with the prophet to say, “I will freely sacrifice unto\r\nThee,”<a id=\"r1423\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1423\"><sup>[1423]</sup></a> and may offer to the Most High a reasonable and\r\nsmokeless sacrifice.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter I."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-477"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f6e0e0d394005c853c2f2e7e51318af21999ed5ff287fe58d9c2e13854b395ea","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":54,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. liv. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1422","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":"f1422","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1422\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1422\">1422</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"fifty-four\">liv.</abbr> 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1422","text_sha256":"caad820b85666ae51a289611db698a2ccc209b3a0fef15da635cafb21d33d862","verified":false,"work_id":null}