{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Now if these words in the law, “Thou shalt have dominion\r\nover many nations, and no one shall rule over thee,” were\r\nsimply a promise to them of dominion, and if they contain no\r\ndeeper meaning than this, then it is certain that the people\r\nwould have had still stronger grounds for despising the promises\r\nof the law. Celsus brings forward another passage, although\r\nhe changes the terms of it, where it is said that the whole\r\nearth shall be filled with the Hebrew race; which indeed,\r\naccording to the testimony of history, did actually happen after\r\nthe coming of Christ, although rather as a result of God’s\r\nanger, if I may so say, than of His blessing. As to the promise\r\nmade to the Jews that they should slay their enemies, it\r\nmay be answered that any one who examines carefully into the\r\nmeaning of this passage will find himself unable to interpret it\r\nliterally. It is sufficient at present to refer to the manner in\r\nwhich in the Psalms the just man is represented as saying,\r\namong other things, “Every morning will I destroy the wicked\r\nof the land, that I may cut off all workers of iniquity from the\r\ncity of Jehovah.”<a id=\"r1440\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1440\"><sup>[1440]</sup></a> Judge, then, from the words and spirit of\r\nthe speaker, whether it is conceivable that, after having in\r\nthe preceding part of the Psalm, as any one may read for\r\nhimself, uttered the noblest thoughts and purposes, he should\r\nin the sequel, according to the literal rendering of his words,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_443\">443</span>say that in the morning, and at no other period of the day, he\r\nwould destroy all sinners from the earth, and leave none of\r\nthem alive, and that he would slay every one in Jerusalem who\r\ndid iniquity. And there are many similar expressions to be\r\nfound in the law, as this, for example: “We left not anything\r\nalive.”<a id=\"r1441\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1441\"><sup>[1441]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter XIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-496"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"79ac54a2c859ddf05b0abc3e1e5fbd84b769090a6d63d1766cfd4df66a606572","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":101,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. ci. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f1440","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":"f1440","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1440\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1440\">1440</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"a hundred and one\">ci.</abbr> 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1440","text_sha256":"60afef86cbae2987b3188eb7ec608f307c7773478574a7306c5a3f337e71efa6","verified":false,"work_id":null}