{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">However, some one hard pressed by this argument may\r\nhave recourse to the opinion of those who reject this epistle\r\nas not being Paul’s; against whom I must at some other\r\ntime use other arguments to prove that it is Paul’s. At present\r\nI shall adduce from the Gospel what Jesus Christ testifies\r\nconcerning the prophets, together with a story which He refers\r\nto, but which is not found in the Old Testament, since in it\r\nalso there is a scandal against unjust judges in Israel. The\r\nwords of our Saviour run thus: “Woe unto you, scribes\r\nand Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the\r\nprophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and\r\nsay, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not\r\nhave been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.\r\nWherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the\r\nchildren of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then\r\nthe measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of\r\nvipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna? Wherefore,\r\nbehold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and\r\nscribes; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and\r\nsome of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute\r\nthem from city to city: that upon you may come all\r\nthe righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of\r\nrighteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias,\r\nwhom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I\r\nsay unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.”\r\nAnd what follows is of the same tenor: “O Jerusalem,\r\nJerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest\r\nthem which are sent unto thee, how often would I have\r\ngathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her\r\nchickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your\r\nhouse is left unto you desolate.”<a id=\"r1095\"></a><a class=\"c007 pginternal\" href=\"#f1095\"><sup>[1095]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of Origen, Vol. 1 of 2","LETTERS.","A LETTER FROM ORIGEN TO AFRICANUS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70561-paragraph-369"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"44cc00db893c8ee5c0ec720d2dd8001f93bda6f73df7530a0a8b6b6f831c79e4","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":23,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxiii. 29-36","verse":29,"verse_end":36}],"headings":[],"id":"pg70561-f1095","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":"f1095","source_ebook":70561,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1095\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1095\">1095</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-three\">xxiii.</abbr> 29-36.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"de125e213d16053354f22b34a1c8d477ac23f201e660e4f4841b2ed7e05bb367","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70561/pg70561-images.html#f1095","text_sha256":"11047c990e4407eeeccdc2cc409b43c64a2e14c06cb66361738e6bec368fb022","verified":false,"work_id":null}