{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Immediately after this, Celsus, perceiving that he has slandered\r\nus with too great bitterness, as if by way of defence\r\nexpresses himself as follows: “That I bring no heavier charge\r\nthan what the truth compels me, any one may see from the\r\nfollowing remarks. Those who invite to participation in other\r\nmysteries, make proclamation as follows: ‘Every one who has\r\nclean hands, and a prudent tongue;’<a id=\"r411\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f411\"><sup>[411]</sup></a> others again thus: ‘He\r\nwho is pure from all pollution, and whose soul is conscious of no\r\nevil, and who has lived well and justly.’ Such is the proclamation\r\nmade by those who promise purification from sins. But let\r\nus hear what kind of persons these Christians invite. Every\r\none, they say, who is a sinner, who is devoid of understanding,\r\nwho is a child, and, to speak generally, whoever is unfortunate,\r\nhim will the kingdom of God receive. Do you not call him a\r\nsinner, then, who is unjust, and a thief, and a housebreaker, and\r\na poisoner, and a committer of sacrilege, and a robber of the\r\ndead? What others would a man invite if he were issuing a\r\nproclamation for an assembly of robbers?” Now, in answer to\r\nsuch statements, we say that it is not the same thing to invite\r\nthose who are <i>sick in soul</i> to be <i>cured</i>, and those who are <i>in\r\nhealth</i> to the <i>knowledge</i> and <i>study</i> of divine things. We, however,\r\nkeeping both these things in view, at first invite all men\r\nto be healed, and exhort those who are sinners to come to the\r\nconsideration of the doctrines which teach men not to sin, and\r\nthose who are devoid of understanding to those which beget\r\nwisdom, and those who are children to rise in their thoughts to\r\nmanhood, and those who are simply<a id=\"r412\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f412\"><sup>[412]</sup></a> unfortunate to good\r\nfortune,<a id=\"r413\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f413\"><sup>[413]</sup></a> or—which is the more appropriate term to use—to\r\nblessedness.<a id=\"r414\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f414\"><sup>[414]</sup></a> And when those who have been turned towards\r\nvirtue have made progress, and have shown that they have been\r\npurified by the word, and have led as far as they can a better\r\nlife, then and not before do we invite them to participation in\r\nour mysteries. “For we speak wisdom among them that are\r\nperfect.”<a id=\"r415\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f415\"><sup>[415]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter LIX."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-196"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"35467bc00fa5e81bef0e0840190ee7889c9f4509488638947fe11655471abbfd","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-f411","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":"f411","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f411\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r411\">411</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">φωνὴν συνετός.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f411","text_sha256":"b38f5e8837ced6e9a335e3c6e6fe9f827850c06cefd12273126379fc94e0fc87","verified":false,"work_id":null}