{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Having, in the three preceding books, fully stated\r\nwhat occurred to us by way of answer to the\r\ntreatise of Celsus, we now, reverend Ambrosius,\r\nwith prayer to God through Christ, offer this\r\nfourth book as a reply to what follows. And we pray that\r\nwords may be given us, as it is written in the book of Jeremiah\r\nthat the Lord said to the prophet: “Behold, I have put my\r\nwords in thy mouth as fire. See, I have set thee this day over\r\nthe nations, and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull\r\ndown, and to destroy, and to throw down, and to build and\r\nto plant.”<a id=\"r475\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f475\"><sup>[475]</sup></a> For we need words now which will root out of\r\nevery wounded soul the reproaches uttered against the truth by\r\nthis treatise of Celsus, or which proceed from opinions like his.\r\nAnd we need also thoughts which will pull down all edifices\r\nbased on false opinions, and especially the edifice raised by\r\nCelsus in his work, which resembles the building of those who\r\nsaid, “Come, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top shall\r\nreach to heaven.”<a id=\"r476\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f476\"><sup>[476]</sup></a> Yea, we even require a wisdom which\r\nwill throw down all high things that rise against the knowledge\r\nof God,<a id=\"r477\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f477\"><sup>[477]</sup></a> and especially that height of arrogance which Celsus\r\ndisplays against us. And in the next place, as we must not stop\r\nwith rooting out and pulling down the hindrances which have\r\njust been mentioned, but must, in room of what has been rooted\r\nout, plant the plants of “God’s husbandry;”<a id=\"r478\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f478\"><sup>[478]</sup></a> and in place of\r\nwhat has been pulled down, rear up the building of God, and the\r\ntemple of His glory,—we must for that reason pray also to the\r\nLord, who bestowed the gifts named in the book of Jeremiah,\r\nthat He may grant even to us words adapted both for building\r\nup the [temple] of Christ, and for planting the spiritual law,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_162\">162</span>and the prophetic words referring to the same.<a id=\"r479\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f479\"><sup>[479]</sup></a> And above\r\nall is it necessary to show, as against the assertions of Celsus\r\nwhich follow those he has already made, that the prophecies\r\nregarding Christ are true predictions. For, arraying himself\r\nat the same time against both parties—against the Jews on the\r\none hand, who deny that the advent of Christ has taken place,\r\nbut who expect it as future, and against Christians on the\r\nother, who acknowledge that Jesus is the Christ spoken of in\r\nprophecy—he makes the following statement:—</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter I."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-220"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3be309db934237f9458d11f80ff0cbfd70d9d32079499e02878daaf7b2502f39","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JER","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Jer. i. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f475","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":"f475","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f475\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r475\">475</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Jeremiah\">Jer.</abbr> <abbr title=\"one\">i.</abbr> 9, 10.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f475","text_sha256":"b8053f6f2cb5d96c2e1efe031e0d9ba04e87e925633465c3830e5a5ad427965f","verified":false,"work_id":null}