{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, as it is his object to slander our Scriptures,\r\nhe ridicules the following statement: “And God caused a deep\r\nsleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his\r\nribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which\r\nHe had taken from the man, made He a woman,”<a id=\"r631\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f631\"><sup>[631]</sup></a> and so on;\r\nwithout quoting the words, which would give the hearer the\r\nimpression that they are spoken with a figurative meaning. He\r\nwould not even have it appear that the words were used allegorically,\r\nalthough he says afterwards, that “the more modest\r\namong Jews and Christians are ashamed of these things, and\r\nendeavour to give them somehow an allegorical signification.”\r\nNow we might say to him, Are the statements of your “inspired”\r\nHesiod, which he makes regarding the woman in the form of a\r\nmyth, to be explained allegorically, in the sense that she was\r\ngiven by Jove to men as an evil thing, and as a retribution for\r\nthe theft of “the fire;”<a id=\"r632\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f632\"><sup>[632]</sup></a> while that regarding the woman who\r\nwas taken from the side of the man (after he had been buried\r\nin deep slumber), and was formed by God, appears to you to be\r\nrelated without any rational meaning and secret signification?<a id=\"r633\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f633\"><sup>[633]</sup></a>\r\nBut is it not uncandid, not to ridicule the former as myths,\r\nbut to admire them as philosophical ideas in a mythical dress,\r\nand to treat with contempt<a id=\"r634\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f634\"><sup>[634]</sup></a> the latter, as offending the understanding,\r\nand to declare that they are of no account? For if,\r\nbecause of the mere phraseology, we are to find fault with what\r\nis intended to have a secret meaning, see whether the following\r\nlines of Hesiod, a man, as you say, “inspired,” are not better\r\nfitted to excite laughter:</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XXXVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-257"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8ab36d8ce671b4ac16b16a70dedb9d25e2692c85687de0809cfe318bcfde7f18","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":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. ii. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f631","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":"f631","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f631\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r631\">631</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Genesis\">Gen.</abbr> <abbr title=\"two\">ii.</abbr> 21, 22.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f631","text_sha256":"518fa84078cd0895f538ec15cb5da72c99839d83922a58783024ef4030a56399","verified":false,"work_id":null}