{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">He wishes, indeed, to compare the articles of our faith to\r\nthose of the Egyptians; “among whom, as you approach their\r\nsacred edifices, are to be seen splendid enclosures, and groves,\r\nand large and beautiful gateways,<a id=\"r290\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f290\"><sup>[290]</sup></a> and wonderful temples, and\r\nmagnificent tents around them, and ceremonies of worship full\r\nof superstition and mystery; but when you have entered, and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_99\">99</span>passed within, the object of worship is seen to be a cat, or an\r\nape, or a crocodile, or a goat, or a dog!” Now, what is the\r\nresemblance<a id=\"r291\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f291\"><sup>[291]</sup></a> between us and the splendours of Egyptian worship\r\nwhich are seen by those who draw near their temples?\r\nAnd where is the resemblance to those irrational animals which\r\nare worshipped within, after you pass through the splendid\r\ngateways? Are our prophecies, and the God of all things, and\r\nthe injunctions against images, objects of reverence in the view\r\nof Celsus also, and Jesus Christ crucified, the analogue to the\r\nworship of the irrational animal? But if he should assert this—and\r\nI do not think that he will maintain anything else—we\r\nshall reply that we have spoken in the preceding pages at\r\ngreater length in defence of those charges affecting Jesus,\r\nshowing that what appeared to have happened to Him in the\r\ncapacity of His human nature, was fraught with benefit to all\r\nmen, and with salvation to the whole world.</p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK III.","Chapter XVII."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-149"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"38024c2e1dbc7f5c7aa22f399aaab56b36913f420adb83c6b44885c84dd6c96c","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-f291","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":"f291","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f291\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r291\">291</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">τὸ ἀνάλογον.</span></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f291","text_sha256":"753f794498da9dd520ccc5b9e36a84089fa9c92622ad8427417188ed1e83d43b","verified":false,"work_id":null}