{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">In the next place, as if he had devoted himself solely to the\r\nmanifestation of his hatred and dislike of the Jewish and\r\nChristian doctrine, he says: “The more modest of Jewish and\r\nChristian writers give all these things an allegorical meaning;”\r\nand, “Because they are ashamed of these things, they take\r\nrefuge in allegory.” Now one might say to him, that if we\r\nmust admit fables and fictions, whether written with a concealed\r\nmeaning or with any other object, to be shameful narratives\r\nwhen taken in their literal acceptation,<a id=\"r688\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f688\"><sup>[688]</sup></a> of what histories\r\ncan this be said more truly than of the Grecian? In these\r\nhistories, gods who are sons castrate the gods who are their\r\nfathers, and gods who are parents devour their own children,\r\nand a goddess-mother gives to the “father of gods and men”\r\na stone to swallow instead of his own son, and a father has\r\nintercourse with his daughter, and a wife binds her own husband,\r\nhaving as her allies in the work the brother of the fettered god\r\nand his own daughter! But why should I enumerate these\r\nabsurd stories of the Greeks regarding their gods, which are\r\nmost shameful in themselves, even though invested with an\r\nallegorical meaning? [Take the instance] where Chrysippus\r\nof Soli, who is considered to be an ornament of the Stoic sect,\r\non account of his numerous and learned treatises, explains a\r\npicture at Samos, in which Juno was represented as committing\r\nunspeakable abominations with Jupiter. This reverend philosopher\r\nsays in his treatises, that matter receives the spermatic\r\nwords<a id=\"r689\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f689\"><sup>[689]</sup></a> of the god, and retains them within herself, in order to\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_215\">215</span>ornament the universe. For in the picture at Samos Juno\r\nrepresents matter, and Jupiter God. Now it is on account\r\nof these, and of countless other similar fables, that we would\r\nnot even in word call the God of all things Jupiter, or\r\nthe sun Apollo, or the moon Diana. But we offer to the\r\nCreator a worship which is pure, and speak with religious\r\nrespect of His noble works of creation, not contaminating even\r\nin word the things of God; approving of the language of Plato\r\nin the <i>Philebus</i>, who would not admit that pleasure was a\r\ngoddess, “so great is my reverence, Protarchus,” he says, “for\r\nthe very names of the gods.” We verily entertain such reverence\r\nfor the name of God, and for His noble works of creation,\r\nthat we would not, even under pretext of an allegorical meaning,\r\nadmit any fable which might do injury to the young.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XLVIII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-269"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"425b98f1e305054207a9a0c5777c2ef896fbb91c8aab744e1f4d4193a240d5a1","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-f688","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":"f688","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f688\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r688\">688</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">κατὰ τὴν πρώτην ἐκδοχὴν.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f688","text_sha256":"2bdae1d9574a3721ffb5eb4004cc1f0563e5124ccf52d7b93059f3bd847468de","verified":false,"work_id":null}