{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">In the next place, since our opponents keep repeating those\r\nstatements about faith, we must say that, considering it as\r\na useful thing for the multitude, we admit that we teach\r\nthose men to believe without reasons, who are unable to\r\nabandon all other employments, and give themselves to an\r\nexamination of arguments; and our opponents, although they\r\ndo not acknowledge it, yet practically do the same. For\r\nwho is there that, on betaking himself to the study of philosophy,\r\nand throwing himself into the ranks of some sect,\r\neither by chance,<a id=\"r1150\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1150\"><sup>[1150]</sup></a> or because he is provided with a teacher of\r\nthat school, adopts such a course for any other reason, except\r\nthat he <i>believes</i> his particular sect to be superior to any other?\r\nFor, not waiting to hear the arguments of all the other\r\nphilosophers, and of all the different sects, and the reasons\r\nfor condemning one system and for supporting another, he\r\nin this way elects to become a Stoic, <i>e.g.</i>, or a Platonist, or a\r\nPeripatetic, or an Epicurean, or a follower of some other\r\nschool, and is thus borne, although they will not admit it, by\r\na kind of irrational impulse to the practice, say of Stoicism,\r\nto the disregard of the others; despising either Platonism, as\r\nbeing marked by greater humility than the others; or Peripateticism,\r\nas more human, and as admitting with more\r\nfairness<a id=\"r1151\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1151\"><sup>[1151]</sup></a> than other systems the blessings of human life.\r\nAnd some also, alarmed at first sight<a id=\"r1152\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1152\"><sup>[1152]</sup></a> about the doctrine of\r\nprovidence, from seeing what happens in the world to the\r\nvicious and to the virtuous, have rashly concluded that there\r\nis no divine providence at all, and have adopted the views of\r\nEpicurus and Celsus.</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter X."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-408"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4f9a2931aa75269b3fb000fae1537fdf2cb064972a4aa5a766b9a976ddf56012","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1152","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1889. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1152","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1152\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1152\">1152</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">ἀπὸ πρώτης προσβολῆς.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1152","text_sha256":"66fb6147d84191c4d0fc60f2e3f2653b99711a1e2bb773fac85c2881da6d3731","verified":false,"work_id":null}