{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">And since Jesus, in teaching His disciples not to be guilty\r\nof rashness, gave them the precept, “If they persecute you\r\nin this city, flee ye into another; and if they persecute you\r\nin the other, flee again into a third,”<a id=\"r1243\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1243\"><sup>[1243]</sup></a> to which teaching He\r\nadded the example of a consistent life, acting so as not to\r\nexpose Himself to danger rashly, or unseasonably, or without\r\ngood grounds; from this Celsus takes occasion to bring a malicious\r\nand slanderous accusation,—the Jew whom he brings\r\nforward saying to Jesus, “In company with your disciples\r\nyou go and hide yourself in different places.” Now similar to\r\nwhat has thus been made the ground of a slanderous charge\r\nagainst Jesus and His disciples, do we say was the conduct\r\nrecorded of Aristotle. This philosopher, seeing that a court\r\nwas about to be summoned to try him, on the ground of his\r\nbeing guilty of impiety on account of certain of his philosophical\r\ntenets which the Athenians regarded as impious, withdrew\r\nfrom Athens, and fixed his school in Chalcis, defending\r\nhis course of procedure to his friends by saying, “Let us\r\ndepart from Athens, that we may not give the Athenians a\r\nhandle for incurring guilt a second time, as formerly in the\r\ncase of Socrates, and so prevent them from committing a\r\nsecond act of impiety against philosophy.” He further says,\r\n“that Jesus went about with his disciples, and obtained his\r\nlivelihood in a disgraceful and importunate manner.” Let\r\nhim show wherein lay the disgraceful and importunate element\r\nin their manner of subsistence. For it is related in the Gospels,\r\nthat there were certain women who had been healed of their\r\ndiseases, among whom also was Susanna, who from their own\r\npossessions afforded the disciples the means of support. And\r\nwho is there among philosophers, that, when devoting himself\r\nto the service of his acquaintances, is not in the habit of receiving\r\nfrom them what is needful for his wants? Or is it only\r\nin them that such acts are proper and becoming; but when\r\nthe disciples of Jesus do the same, they are accused by Celsus\r\nof obtaining their livelihood by disgraceful importunity?</p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","ORIGEN CONTRA CELSUM.","ORIGEN AGAINST CELSUS. BOOK I.","Chapter LXV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-463"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7f92963b9c2677590cea92cff36a8da0b4839ab6a219c25d99bd7be4af0e03fc","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. x. 23","verse":23,"verse_end":23}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1243","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":"f1243","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1243\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1243\">1243</a>. </span><abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> <abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"ten\">x.</abbr> 23.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1243","text_sha256":"d92226d0cc9d5034bdbef0f2bd89ec3ca74d0922cf2ee54c1dca770134902e9e","verified":false,"work_id":null}