{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He accuses the Christian teacher, moreover, of “seeking\r\nafter the unintelligent.” In answer, we ask, Whom do you\r\nmean by the “unintelligent?” For, to speak accurately, every\r\nwicked man is “unintelligent.” If then by “unintelligent”\r\nyou mean the wicked, do you, in drawing men to philosophy,\r\nseek to gain the wicked or the virtuous?<a id=\"r457\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f457\"><sup>[457]</sup></a> But it is impossible\r\nto gain the virtuous, because they have already given themselves\r\nto philosophy. The wicked, then, [you try to gain;] but\r\nif they are wicked, are they “unintelligent?” And many such\r\nyou seek to win over to philosophy, and you therefore seek\r\nthe “unintelligent.” But if I seek after those who are thus\r\ntermed “unintelligent,” I act like a benevolent physician, who\r\nshould seek after the sick in order to help and cure them. If,\r\nhowever, by “unintelligent” you mean persons who are not\r\nclever,<a id=\"r458\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f458\"><sup>[458]</sup></a> but the inferior class of men intellectually,<a id=\"r459\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f459\"><sup>[459]</sup></a> I shall\r\nanswer that I endeavour to improve such also to the best\r\nof my ability, although I would not desire to build up the\r\nChristian community out of such materials. For I seek in\r\npreference those who are more clever and acute, because they\r\nare able to comprehend the meaning of the hard sayings, and\r\nof those passages in the law, and prophecies, and Gospels, which\r\nare expressed with obscurity, and which you have despised as\r\nnot containing anything worthy of notice, because you have\r\nnot ascertained the meaning which they contain, nor tried to\r\nenter into the aim of the writers.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LXXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-212"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1197f99912f54231a0974477c9f7894588f52867c832b0c0febfd6fd6ca09990","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f457","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":"f457","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f457\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r457\">457</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἀστείους.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f457","text_sha256":"6bce8ca130868fe80188d4b4d743d8512fbcf6ddf1a2de0776a2d63d4b0a3223","verified":false,"work_id":null}