{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">As, then, this act of self-restraint, which in appearance is\r\none and the same, is found in fact to be different in different\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_485\">485</span>persons, according to the principles and motives which lead to\r\nit; so in the same way with those who cannot allow in the\r\nworship of the Divine Being altars, or temples, or images. The\r\nScythians, the nomadic Libyans, the godless Seres, and the\r\nPersians, agree in this with the Christians and Jews, but they\r\nare actuated by very different principles. For none of these\r\nformer abhor altars and images on the ground that they are\r\nafraid of degrading the worship of God, and reducing it to\r\nthe worship of material things wrought by the hands of men.\r\nNeither do they object to them from a belief that the demons\r\nchoose certain forms and places, whether because they are\r\ndetained there by virtue of certain charms, or because for some\r\nother possible reason they have selected these haunts, where\r\nthey may pursue their criminal pleasures, in partaking of the\r\nsmoke of sacrificial victims. But Christians and Jews have\r\nregard to this command, “Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God,\r\nand serve Him alone;”<a id=\"r1554\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1554\"><sup>[1554]</sup></a> and this other, “Thou shalt have no\r\nother gods before me: thou shalt not make unto thee any\r\ngraven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven\r\nabove, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water\r\nunder the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor\r\nserve them;”<a id=\"r1555\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1555\"><sup>[1555]</sup></a> and again, “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy\r\nGod, and Him only shalt thou serve.”<a id=\"r1556\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f1556\"><sup>[1556]</sup></a> It is in consideration\r\nof these and many other such commands, that they not only\r\navoid temples, altars, and images, but are ready to suffer death\r\nwhen it is necessary, rather than debase by any such impiety\r\nthe conception which they have of the Most High God.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK VII.","Chapter LXIV."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-541"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"09269e80dfa1e8baecf016884f9356ec8c3e9c094f52398e2be71236a00eb432","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-f1555","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":"f1555","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1555\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1555\">1555</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Exodus\">Ex.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty\">xx.</abbr> 3, 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f1555","text_sha256":"052dbc1ff6d57e1e3bac5181604e3b8578768e10ba1ef59430b9aefa914718e3","verified":false,"work_id":null}